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cn type 7251

Mint
Germe 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 161-165 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
[ΑV ΚΑΙ] Μ ΑVΡΗΛΙ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝ
Design
Bust of bearded Marcus Aurelius, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ Γ [Ι] ΝΙΚΙΟV ΑΡΧΟΝΤΟϹ ΓΕΡΜΗΝ
Design
Nude Heracles seated left on rock, holding uncertain object (cup or cista mystica?) in right hand, resting left arm on rock.
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Persons

Sitter: Marc Aurel 🔍  

Archon: Gaius I(ulius) Nikias 🔍

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

Ehling, Die Münzprägung der mysischen Stadt Germe in der römischen Kaiserzeit, Bonn 2001 p. 130, nr. 107, annot. zw. 162-166 n. Chr.  ❐

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. 642, annot. ca. 161-165 n. Chr.  ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/642 ❐

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cn type 7251, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/7251 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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