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cn type 8207

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Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

198 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Π ϹΕΠ ΓΕΤΑϹ Κ
Design
Bare-headed bust of youthful Geta, right, wearing paludamentum, cuirass and aegis.
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Reverse
Legend
ЄΠ ϹΑΛ ΑΡΙϹΤΑΙΝΕΤΟV ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Nude Hermes standing facing, head left, holding purse in right hand and upright caduceus in left hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Geta 🔍  

Magistrate: Gaius Sallius Aristaenetus 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
Material
Diameter
Max: 30 mm / Min: 28 mm
Average Weight
15.14 g (1x)
Axes
7 (1x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 85, nr. 1602, pl. 88 

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 165, nr. 1836 

Literature

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 44, nr. 14 b (Described as Poseidon.) 

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.424  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 8207, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/8207 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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