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cn type 1511

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΙΟVΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Philip the Arab, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ
Design
Heracles standing right, resting on club in right hand, holding lion skin and apple in left hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 65, nr. 87  ❐

Jurukova, Coins of the ancient Thracians [engl.] Transl. from the Bulgarian Yordanka Youroukova, 1976 p. 270, nr. 149, pl. 46  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 133, nr. 1552 ❐

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cn type 1511, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/1511 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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