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cn type 8441

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 222-235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ϹΕV ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Radiate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum; gorgoneion on breastplate.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ Μ ΑVΡ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ ΑΙΛ ΦΗϹΤΗϹ ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Emperor (Severus Alexander) in military attire with spear riding right on horseback, besides lion running right.
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍

Magistrate: Aelia Festa 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
37 mm (1x)
Average Weight
30.60 g (3x)
Axes
7 (1x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 103, nr. 1737, pl. 100, pic. 1737  ❐

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 104, nr. 93 ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 47, nr. 21a ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Zur Geschichte Thrakiens anhand von griechischen Münzbildern aus der römischen Kaiserzeit 49, 1967 p. 236, nr. 44, pic. 5 ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.472  🔍

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cn type 8441, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/8441 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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