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cn type 8508

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ϹΕV ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟϹ ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Athena standing left, holding patera and sceptre.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26.1 mm / Min: 23 mm
Average Weight
8.27 g (3x)
Axes
6 (2x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 109, nr. 1766, pl. 103, pic. 1766/3  ❐

Literature

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 48, nr. 21b ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.501  🔍

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cn type 8508, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/8508 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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