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cn type 559

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Serdika 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

212-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ϹΕVΗ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Design
Radiate head of Caracalla, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΟVΛΠΙΑϹ ϹΕΔΙΚΗϹ
Design
Emperor (Caracalla) in military attire riding right on horseback, raising right arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 30.14 mm / Min: 29 mm
Average Weight
13.98 g (2x)
Axes
7 (1x)
Literature

Ruzicka, Die Münzen von Serdica 8, Vienna 1915 p. 57, nr. 344-345 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 250, nr. 2291-2294 ❐

Hristova, Monetosečeneto na Trakija I-III v. : Serdika = The coins of Thrace I-III c. A.C.: Serdica, Blagoevgrad 2007 p. 116, nr. 12.18.34.8 (Hristova does not plate the obverse and describes it wrong with laurel wreath.)  ❐

editions

cn.serdica.1_ed.260  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 559, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/559 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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