original - License: Public Domain Mark 1.0 - Photographer: Lutz-Jürgen Lübke (Lübke & Wiedemann) ❐

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cn type 6951

Mint

Imbros 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

27 BC-14 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΣΕΒΑΣ

Design

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

Reverse

Design

Ithyphallic herm, right.
go to the NLP result of this description

Persons

Sitter: Augustus 🔍

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 21 mm / Min: 20 mm

Average Weight

7.87 g (4x)

Axes

1 (1x) 12 (3x)

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1735. Links der Herme auf der Rückseite Spuren einer Legende oder eines Monogramms? Im RPC als kurze horizontale Linie (?) beschrieben. At the left on the reverse traces of legend or monogram? In RPC described as short horizontal line(?).

Citation

Burnett et al., RPC I: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. I: From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius: 44 BC-AD 69, London [u.a.] 1992 nr. 1735 ❐

Ruhl, Imbros: Archäologie einer nordostägäischen Insel, Marburg 2018 p. 27.283, nr. 9 ❐

Literature

Howgego, Greek Imperial Countermarks: Studies in the Provincial Coinage of the Roman Empire, London 1985 p. 188, nr. 431 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 327, nr. 2992 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1735 ❐

editions

cn.imbros.1_ed.30 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 6951, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6951 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]