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cn type 3131

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Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡΗ ϹΕV ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of youthful Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙWΝ Β ΝΕWΚΟΡWΝ ΙWΝWΝ
Design
Ariadne, Dionysus, Sileni, Pan and Silenus; In the front Ariadne lying left on a rock, sleeping; at her feet dog lying left; in the middle Dionysus standing facing, wearing ivy wreath and nebris over shoulder, holding thyrsus in right hand, left hand over the shoulder of a Silenus, showing Ariadne; to right a second Silenus with hide over shoulder; to left of Dionysus horned Pan, holding a pedum in left hand and right hand on the shoulder of a Silenus to left, standing right, resting both hands on a stick.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
Diameter
40 mm (1x)
Average Weight
32.78 g (1x)
Axes
2 (1x)
Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 239-240, nr. 778, pl. 48 

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 62, nr. 455

editions

cn.perinthus.1_ed.433  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 3131, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/3131 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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