cn type 1502

Mint

Bizye 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

244-249 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΙΟVΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΑVΓ

Design

Laureate bust of Philip the Arab, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse

Legend

ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ

Design

Nude Apollo standing left, legs crossed, holding patera in right hand, left hand over serpent coiling around omphalos.
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Persons

Sitter

Philippus Arabs 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

5 unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 30 mm / Min: 29 mm

Average Weight

13.05 g (3x)

Axes

6 (1x)

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 64, nr. 78  ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 260-262, nr. 92-99, 102-109, pl. 41-42  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 128, nr. 1503-1504  ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/48639  ❐

Cite this record:

cn type 1502, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/1502 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/17]

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