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cn coin 996

Connected to Type

CN Type 8498 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1747_V210 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ϹΕV ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1746_R398 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ Μ ΑVΡ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ ΑΙΛ ΦΗϹΤΗϹ · // ΒVΖΑΝΤΙ/ΩΝ / i.f. ϹΕΒΑϹΤΑ
Design
Prize crown, containing two palm branches.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍

Magistrate: Aelia Festa 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
8 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
33 mm
Weight
24.98 g
Owner

Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Cabinet des Médailles, Brüssel, be ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1747, Brüssel (Hirsch) Byzanz ΚΛ

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 106, nr. 1747, pl. 101, pic. 1747  ❐

Naster, La collection Lucien de Hirsch, Brüssel 1959 pl. 47, pic. 886  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 106, nr. 1746-1747, pl. 101, pic. 1746 ❐

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

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cn coin 996, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_996 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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