cn type 7953

Mint

Philippopolis 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

145-153 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑΥΤ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹΕΒ

Design

Laureate bust of Antoninus Pius, left, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse

Legend

ΗΓΕΜ Μ ΠΟΝΤ ϹΑΒΕΙΝΟV ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠΟ ΡΟΔΟΠΗ

Design

Female figure (Rhodope) seated right on rock, holding flowers in left hand.
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Type variations

1. Iconography in the background of the revers: tree.

Persons

Sitter

Antoninus Pius 🔍 ❐

Legatus Augusti pro praetore

M. Pontius Sabinus 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

5 unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Average Weight

18.69 g (1x)

Citation

Varbanov, The Coinage of Philippopolis. Vol. II Catalogue 2, Bourgas 2019 p. 43, nr. VI.9  ❐

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. 7429  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 97, nr. 709  ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/7429  ❐

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cn type 7953, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/7953 [Last downloaded: 2024/10/04]

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