cn type 1322
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cn type 1322

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Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

138-161 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ
Design
Nude Silenus standing left, holding cantharus and wine-skin.
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Metrology
Denomination
One and one half 🔍  
Material
Diameter
Max: 20 mm / Min: 19 mm
Average Weight
4.25 g (3x)
Axes
6 (1x) 7 (3x)
Citation

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. 4546 

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 78, nr. 168-169 

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 182, nr. 25-28a 

Literature

Bernhart, Dionysos und seine Familie auf griechischen Münzen: numismatischer Beitrag zur Ikonographie des Dionysos, 1949 p. 161, nr. 1386

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/4546

Cite this record:

cn type 1322, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/1322 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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