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cn type 446

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Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

244-248 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΑVΤ Μ ΙΟΥΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ Μ ΩΤ ϹЄΒΗΡΑ ϹЄ(Β)
Design
Confronted busts of Philip the Arab, laureate, and of Otacilia Severa, diademed.
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Reverse
Legend
ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Hygieia standing right, feeding serpent from patera.
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Persons

Sitter: Philippus Arabs 🔍  

Sitter: Otacilia Severa 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Material
Diameter
Max: 26 mm / Min: 25.7 mm
Average Weight
10.65 g (2x)
Axes
1 (1x) 2 (1x)
Citation

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 430, nr. 307-316, pl. 147, pic. 307-316 

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 356, nr. 4250

editions

cn.mesembria.1_ed.259  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 446, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/446 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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