cn type 7053

Mint

Byzantion 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

c. 176 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑΝ ΛΟVΚVΛΛΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ

Design

Draped bust of Lucilla, right.
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Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ΘΕΑϹ ΦΑVϹΤΙΝΗϹ ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ

Design

Dolphin swimming between two tunnies.
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Persons

eponymous deity/heroes: Faustina II. 🔍

Sitter: Lucilla 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

5 unit 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 28 mm / Min: 25 mm

Average Weight

11.52 g (2x)

Axes

7 (2x)

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/8704

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 59, nr. 1427-1428, pl. 74 ❐

Heuchert, RPC IV: Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. IV: From Antoninus Pius to Commodus (AD 138–192). online (temporary), http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/ nr. 8704 ❐

Literature

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 34 f., nr. 10 ❐

Sallet, Beiträge zur Antiken Münz- und Alterthumskunde 9, 1882 p. 148 ❐

Mionnet, S.T.2.Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, 1822 p. 252, nr. 287 ❐

Eckhel, Catalogus musei caesarei Vindobonensis numorum veterum, Wien 1779 p. 66, nr. 5 ❐

Fröhlich and Foy-Vaillant, Quatuor tentamina in re numoria vetere, Wien 1750 nr. 114 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/8704 ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.330 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 7053, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/7053 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]