cn type 1555

Mint

Bizye 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

244-249 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑVΤ Μ ΙΟVΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΑVΓ

Design

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

Reverse

Legend

ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ

Design

Trophy; to left, Nike; to right, emperor (Philip the Arab) holding spear in left hand; at base, two captives.

Persons

Sitter

Philippus Arabs 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Medallion 🔍

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

40 mm (1x)

Average Weight

36.73 g (2x)

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 72, nr. 132 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 238, nr. 1-2, pl. 30 ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 132, nr. 1537 ❐

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cn type 1555, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/1555 [Last downloaded: 2023/02/05]

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