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cn type 256

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Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-248 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΑVΤ Μ ΙΟΥΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ Μ ΩΤ(ΑΚΙΛ) ϹЄΒΗΡΑ ϹЄΒ
Design
Confronted busts of Philip the Arab, laureate, and of Otacilia Severa, diademed.
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Reverse
Legend
ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Nemesis-Aequitas standing left, holding scales and cornucopia; at her feet, wheel.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Sitter: Otacilia Severa 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26.7 mm / Min: 25 mm
Average Weight
11.54 g (4x)
Axes
7 (3x)
Citation

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 424-426, nr. 254-266, pl. 144/145, pic. 254-266  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 356, nr. 4260 ❐

editions

cn.mesembria.1_ed.262  🔍

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cn type 256, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/256 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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