cn type 1553
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cn type 1553

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Μ ΙΟVΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Philip the Arab, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ
Design
Apollo, Asclepius and Hygieia; in the centre, nude Apollo standing left, legs crossed, holding laurel-branch, left hand over serpent coiling around omphalos; at his feet, left, Telesphorus ; to left, Asclepius standing right, holding serpent-staff in right hand; between them Telesphorus; to right, Hygieia standing left, feeding serpent from patera; in the background, Tyche, enthroned, holding rudder and cornucopia and Zeus holding thunderbolt.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
38 mm (1x)
Average Weight
26.00 g (1x)
Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 71, nr. 129  ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 238, nr. 4, pl. 30  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 129, nr. 1507 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/48681 ❐

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cn type 1553, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/1553 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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