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cn type 20281

Mint
Ilion 🔍  

Region: Troas  

Date

198–210 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΑV ΚΑΙ Μ ΑVΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of youthful Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ЄΚΤΩΡ ΙΛΙЄΩΝ
Design
Hector in armour striding right, wearing a shield on his left arm and about to hurl a firebrand at two Greek ships with his right hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
dupondius 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 31.5 mm / Min: 29.7 mm
Average Weight
14.46 g (6x)
Axes
6 (1x) 8 (2x) 12 (2x)
Citation

Bellinger, Troy: the coins, Princeton 1961 nr. T239, T257  ❐

Wroth, A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Greek coins of Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos, Bologna 1964 nr. 92  ❐

Mannsperger, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. 4. Heft: Deutschland. Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen. Mysien - Ionien. Nr. 2174-3306, München 1989 nr. 2617  ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/1253 ❐

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cn type 20281, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20281 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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