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cn coin 997

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_1748_R399 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ Μ ΑVΡ ΦΡΟΝΤ*ΩΝ*ΟϹ ⠁ ΚΑΙ ΑΙΛ ΦΗϹΤΗϹ // ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙ/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
34 mm
Weight
24.69 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18235875

Provenience: Sammlung Imhoof

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1748, Imh

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 106, nr. 1748, pl. 101, pic. 1748  ❐

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

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 997, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_997 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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