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cn coin 994

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CN Type 8496 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1745_V208 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ϹΕV ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Radiate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1744_R394 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ · Μ · ΑVΡ · ΦΡΟΝΤ*ΩΝ*ΟϹ · ΚΑΙ · ΑΙΛ · ΦΗϹΤΗϹ // ΒVΖΑΝ/ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Emperor (Severus Alexander) in military attire riding right on horseback, wearing cuirass and fluttering paludamentum, holding transverse spear in right hand. Short ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍

Magistrate: Aelia Festa 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
38 mm
Weight
32.22 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: 1745, London 288 Byzanz

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 105, nr. 1745, pl. 101, pic. 1745  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 104, nr. 92  ❐

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. 45  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 105, nr. 1745, pl. 101, pic. 1745 ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 104, nr. 92 ❐

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. 45 ❐

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cn coin 994, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_994 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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