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cn coin 998

Connected to Type

CN Type 8499 🔍

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_1749_R400 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΕΠ Μ ΑVΡ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ ΑΙΛ ΦΗϹΤΗϹ // · ΒVΖΑΝΤΙ · /ΩΝ / i.f. ϹΕΒΑϹΤΑ
Design
Agonistic table, left, surmounted by prize crown with two palm branches, between two purses; below, amphora. Border of dots.
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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
22.56 g
Axis
7
Owner

Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 867

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1749, Tübingen 56

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 106, nr. 1749.1  ❐

Mannsperger and Balluff, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : Deutschland [1] Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen H. 2 Taurische Chersones - Korkyra: Nr. 731 - 1542, 1982 nr. 867, pl. 36, pic. 867  ❐

Literature

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 521 ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 106-107, nr. 1749-1754, pl. 101-102, pic. 1749-1754 ❐

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 521 ❐

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