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cn type 7979

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 202-205 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑV Κ Μ ΑVΡ ΑΝΤΩΝЄΙΝΟϹ
Design
Laureate head of youthful Caracalla, right.
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Reverse
Legend
ЄΠ ΑΡΧ Μ ΑVΡ ΑΝΤΩΝЄΙΝΟV ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Artemis advancing left, holding torch in both hands.
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Persons

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Archiereus: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
8 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 36 mm / Min: 31 mm
Average Weight
22.57 g (2x)
Axes
6 (1x) 7 (1x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 73, nr. 1528, pl. 82  ❐

Literature

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 44, nr. 13 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 154, nr. 88 ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.375  🔍

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cn type 7979, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/7979 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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