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cn type 20055

Mint
Markianopolis 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

c. 217-218 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΑVΤ Κ ΟΠΕΛΛΙ ϹΕV ΜΑΚΡΕΙΝΟϹ Κ Μ ΟΠΕΛΛΙ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Design
Laureate head of Macrinus and bare head of Diadumenian, facing each other.
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Reverse
Legend
VΠ ΠΟΝΤΙΑΝΟV ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Serpent coiling right, bent four times.
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Symbol
Ε (position: on the left)
Persons

Sitter: Macrinus 🔍  

Sitter: Diadumenian 🔍  

Legatus Augusti pro praetore: P. Fu. Pontianus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26.4 mm / Min: 25.6 mm
Average Weight
11.53 g (1x)
Axes
7 (1x)
Citation

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 p. 248, nr. 780  ❐

Literature

Mannsperger and Balluff, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : Deutschland [1] Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen H. 2 Taurische Chersones - Korkyra: Nr. 731 - 1542, 1982 nr. 821, pl. 35 ❐

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cn type 20055, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20055 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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