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cn coin 3995

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CN Type 3143 🔍

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Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Tipologie

Datare

222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

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Ştanţă
Per_0784_V_D 🔍
Legendă
Legendă obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ᛈΕV · ΑΛΕ-ΞΑΝΔΡΟᛈ Α*VΓ*
Descriere
Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, seen from front, wearing cuirass; with aegis on left shoulder; gorgoneion on breastplate.
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Ştanţă
Per_0788_R788 🔍
Legendă
Legendă reverse ΠΕΡΙΝ-ΘΙ*WΝ* / Β ΝΕ-WΚΟ/ΡWΝ - Ι*WΝWΝ*
Descriere
Zeus within zodiac; in the middle, Zeus seated facing, holding patera in outstretched right hand, left resting on sceptre; at his feet, eagle to left, head right, with half spread wings; to upper left, Helios standing in quadriga, right, raising right arm; above, crescent; to upper right, Selene standing in biga towed by two bulls, left, holding torch in raised right hand; above, star; below, reclining figures of Gaia to right, holding cornucopia in right arm and a branch in left hand, and of Thalassa to left, wearing crab claws as headdress, holding ruder in left arm; prora at her feet; all within a double circle divided into twelve compartments containing the signs of the zodiac.
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Persoană

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Metrology
Nominal
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diametru
Diametru maxim: 41 mm / Diametru minim: 40 mm
Greutate
37.25 g
Proprietar

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Numărul estampajului: 788, London 74

Referinţă

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 242, nr. 788, pl. 49, pic. 788  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 157, nr. 58  ❐

Svoronos, Sur la signification des types monétaires des anciens 18, 1894 p. 104, nr. 3  ❐

Pick, Thrakische Münzbilder, 1898 p. 142, pl. 10, pic. 9  ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Fluss- und Meergötter auf griechischen und römischen Münzen: Personifikationen der Gewässer 23, 1924 p. 401, nr. 556, pl. 17, pic. 16  ❐

Cook, Zeus: a study in ancient religion, Cambridge 1914 p. 752, nr. 552  ❐

Literatură

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 242, nr. 788 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 65, nr. 476 ❐

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cn coin 3995, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_3995 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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