cn type 7557
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cn type 7557

Mint
Philippopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

160-161 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ ΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑ ΑΝΤΟΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Design
Laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ΗΓΕ ΓΑΡΓΙΛΙ ΑΝΤΙΚΟΥ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠΟΛ(Ε)ΙΤΩΝ
Design
Bearded river-god (Hebros) reclining left, holding ears of corn and poppy, resting on water-urn.
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Type variations

1. Iconography in the background of the revers: reed (or branch?).

Persons

Sitter: Antoninus Pius 🔍  

Legatus Augusti pro praetore: Lucius Pullaienus Gargilius Antiquus 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 34 mm / Min: 28 mm
Average Weight
19.29 g (23x)
Axes
1 (1x) 2 (1x) 7 (1x) 9 (1x) 12 (1x)
Citation

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. 7415  ❐

Varbanov, The Coinage of Philippopolis. Vol. II Catalogue 2, Bourgas 2019 p. 55-59, nr. VI.28.1  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 92, 94, nr. 667, 672-675, 691 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7415 ❐

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cn type 7557, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/7557 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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