cn type 1618
cn type 1618-0
cn type 1618-1
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Mint
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cn type 1618

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-247 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Μ ΙΟVΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Design
Bare head of Philippus iunior, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ
Design
Nude Eros in attitude of Thanatos standing left, resting on torch set on rock (or altar?).
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus iunior 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 19 mm / Min: 17 mm
Average Weight
3.36 g (6x)
Axes
6 (3x) 8 (1x)
Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 76, nr. 158  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 141, nr. 12  ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 290-294, nr. 25-57, pl. 56-58  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 138-139, nr. 1603-1604 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/48726 ❐

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cn type 1618, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/1618 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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