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cn coin 990

Connected to Type

CN Type 8447 🔍

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_1742_R397 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ Μ ΑVΡ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ ΑΙΛ ΦΗϹΤΗϹ // ΒVΖΑΝΤΙ/ΩΝ / i.f.o. ϹΕΒΑ/ϹΤΑ
Design
Laureate emperor standing right, wearing toga capite velato and City goddess standing facing, head left, wearing mural crown, holding cornucopia in left arm; each holding a patera in outstretched right hand over an agonistic table in the middle, surmounted by prize crown with two palm branches.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍

Magistrate: Aelia Festa 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
36 mm
Weight
33.30 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1742, London 191

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 105, nr. 1742.1  ❐

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

Gaebler, Die Losurne in der Agonistik, 1929 p. 299, nr. F 1  ❐

Glendining & Co., Sammlung R. C. Lockett 2, London 1958 p. 82, nr. 1538  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Geschichte Thrakiens anhand von griechischen Münzbildern aus der römischen Kaiserzeit 49, 1967 p. 236, nr. 42  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 105, nr. 1742, pl. 100, pic. 1742/2 ❐

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. 42 ❐

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cn coin 990, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_990 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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