cn type 1618

Mint

Bizye 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

244-247 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

Μ ΙΟVΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ

Design

Bare head of Philippus iunior, right.
go to the NLP result of this description

Reverse

Legend

ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ

Design

Nude Eros in attitude of Thanatos standing left, resting on torch set on rock (or altar?).
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Persons

Sitter

Philippus iunior 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 19 mm / Min: 17 mm

Average Weight

3.36 g (6x)

Axes

6 (3x) 8 (1x)

Citation

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 76, nr. 158  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 141, nr. 12  ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 290-294, nr. 25-57, pl. 56-58  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 138-139, nr. 1603-1604  ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/48726  ❐

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cn type 1618, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/1618 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/23]

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