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cn type 258

Edition
cn.mesembria.1_ed.274
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Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-249 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Μ ΙΟΥΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ Μ ΩΤ ϹЄΒΗΡΑ ϹЄ(Β)
Design
Confronted busts of Philip the Arab, laureate, and of Otacilia Severa, diademed.
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Reverse
Legend
ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Serapis standing left, wearing kalathos, raising right arm, holding sceptre in left hand.
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Type variations

1. Iconographic variation revers: sceptre beside the body.

2. Iconographic variation revers: sceptre accross the body.

Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Sitter: Otacilia Severa 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 27 mm / Min: 25 mm
Average Weight
12.57 g (3x)
Axes
7 (1x)
Citation

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 426-428, nr. 272-275, 278-281, pl. 145, 146, pic. 272-275, 278-281  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 357, nr. 4265, 4267 ❐

editions

cn.mesembria.1_ed.274  🔍

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cn type 258, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/cn.mesembria.1_ed.274 [Last downloaded: 2026/04/15]

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