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cn type 387

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

117-138 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ΔΙϹ ϹΕΒ
Design
Laureate bust of Hadrian, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Diademed head of Trajan, right; in front of him, right, spear.
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Persons

Sitter: Hadrian 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Public Commentary

Revers described as bust of Dionysus and thyrsus.

Citation

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 398, nr. 11a, pl. 131, pic. 11a  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 346, nr. 4147 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/740 ❐

editions

cn.mesembria.1_ed.194  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 387, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/387 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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