cn type 8223

Mint

Byzantion 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

217-218 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΟΠΕΛ ϹЄΟVΗΡ ΜΑΚΡЄΙΝΟϹ ΑVΓ

Design

Laureate bust of Macrinus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse

Legend

ΕΠΙ ΝΕΙΚ(ΗϹ) ΤΟ Ζ ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ

Design

Two fish traps, in between a cattle to the right.
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Persons

Sitter: Macrinus 🔍

eponymous deity/heroes: Nike (Gottheit) 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

7 unit 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 33 mm / Min: 32 mm

Average Weight

19.48 g (3x)

Axes

8 (1x) 12 (2x)

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 89, nr. 1634-1635, pl. 91 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 166, nr. 1844 ❐

Literature

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. 262, nr. 352 ❐

Svoronos, Νομίσματα ανάλεκτα 3, 1839 pl. 2, pic. 5 ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 46, nr. 17 ❐

Bartoli, Nummophylacium Reginae Christinae: Quod Comprehendit Numismata Aerea Imperatorum Romanorum, Latina, Graeca atque in Coloniis Cusa, Hagae Comitum 1742 p. 217, pl. 30, pic. 3 ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.440 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 8223, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/8223 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]