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cn type 1540

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
Nude Apollo (Bonus Eventus) standing left, holding patera and laurel-branch.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 29 mm / Min: 26 mm
Average Weight
12.49 g (3x)
Axes
7 (1x)
Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 69, nr. 116  ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 nr. 102-9  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 129, nr. 1506 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/48688 ❐

Cite this record:

cn type 1540, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/1540 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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