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cn coin 988

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CN Type 8446 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1738_V206 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ · Κ · Μ · ΑVΡ · ϹΕV - ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΟϹ ⠁ ΑVΓ
Design
Radiate bust of Severus Alexander, left, wearing cuirass and plaudamentum; spear in hidden right hand; shield on his left shoulder.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1741_R396 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ Μ ΑVΡ ΦΡΟΝΤ-ΩΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ ΑΙΛ ΦΗϹ-ΤΗϹ // ΒVΖΑΝΤΙ/ΩΝ
Design
Radiate and togate emperor (Severus Alexander) in standing in quadriga, right, holding an aplustre in right hand and a sceptre in left arm; behind him Nike standing right on chariot basket, crowning emperor with laurel wreath in right hand, holding palm branch in left arm. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍

Legatus Augusti pro praetore: Aelia Festa 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
39 mm
Weight
34.69 g
Axis
8
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18235869

Provenience: Sammlung Imhoof

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1741, Imh

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 104, nr. 1741.1, pl. 100, pic. 1741/1  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 47, nr. 21a  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Geschichte Thrakiens anhand von griechischen Münzbildern aus der römischen Kaiserzeit 49, 1967 p. 236, nr. 41, pic. 3  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 104, nr. 1740, pl. 100, pic. 1740 ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 47, nr. 21a ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Geschichte Thrakiens anhand von griechischen Münzbildern aus der römischen Kaiserzeit 49, 1967 p. 236, nr. 41, pic. 3 ❐

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cn coin 988, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_988 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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