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cn type 7249

Mint
Germe 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 147-161 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Μ ΑVΡΗ ΒΗΡΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Design
Bare-headed bust of lightly bearded Marcus Aurelius, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ ϹΤ[Ρ Φ]ΑVϹΤΟV ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ
Design
Nude Heracles standing facing, head left, resting right hand on club set on ground, holding lion skin in left arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Marc Aurel 🔍  

Strategos: Sextus I(ulius) Faustos 🔍

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
32 mm (1x)
Average Weight
23.94 g (1x)
Axes
6 (1x)
Citation

Ehling, Die Münzprägung der mysischen Stadt Germe in der römischen Kaiserzeit, Bonn 2001 p. 128, nr. 96  ❐

Heuchert, RPC IV: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. IV: From Antoninus Pius to Commodus (AD 138–192). online (temporary), http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/ nr. 2556, annot. ca. 147-161 n. Chr.  ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/2556 ❐

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cn type 7249, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/7249 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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