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cn type 8050

Edition
cn.byzantium.1_ed.407
Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 212-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ ΑVΓΟVϹΤΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of bearded Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass, holding spear.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΙΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΑ ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Three nude athletes, each holding a palm branch; two standing right one left of a vessel.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Material
Diameter
32 mm (1x)
Average Weight
19.61 g (1x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 79, nr. 1564, pl. 85, pic. 1564 

Literature

Gaebler, Die Losurne in der Agonistik, 1929 p. 282, nr. 16, pl. 2, pic. 11

Eckhel et al., Musei Franciani Descriptio, Lipsiae 1781 p. 140, nr. 5

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 102, nr. 78

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.407  🔍

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cn type 8050, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/cn.byzantium.1_ed.407 [Last downloaded: 2026/04/21]

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