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cn type 1485

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Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

209-211 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤΚΡΑ Π ϹΕΠ ΓΕΤΑ ϹΕ
Design
Laureate bust of Geta, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ
Design
Nude athlete standing l., looking r, hurling javelin.
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Persons

Sitter: Geta 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26.5 mm / Min: 26 mm
Average Weight
9.89 g (2x)
Axes
5 (1x)
Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 61, nr. 69  (Wrong translitteration of the legend on the avers)  ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 234-236, nr. 35-44a, pl. 28-29  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 127, nr. 1497 ❐

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cn type 1485, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/1485 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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