cn type 248

Mint

Mesembria 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

244-248 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑVΤ Μ ΙΟΥΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ Μ ΩΤ ϹЄΒΗΡΑ ϹЄΒ

Design

Confronted busts of Philip the Arab, laureate, and of Otacilia Severa, diademed.

Reverse

Legend

ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ

Design

Zeus standing left, holding patera and sceptre; at his feet, eagle.

Persons

Sitter

Philippus Arabs 🔍 ❐

Sitter

Otacilia Severa 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

4 unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Average Diameter

26 mm (1x)

Average Weight

9.67 g (2x)

Axes

6 (1x)

Citation

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 422, nr. 221-222, pl. 143, pic. 221-222 ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 357, nr. 4272 ❐

Cite this record:

cn type 248, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/248 [Last downloaded: 2022/07/07]

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