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cn type 8498

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
Laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠ Μ ΑVΡ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ ΑΙΛ ΦΗϹΤΗϹ ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Prize crown, containing two palm branches; inscription
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Persons

Sitter: Severus Alexander 🔍  

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍

Magistrate: Aelia Festa 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
8 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 34.4 mm / Min: 33 mm
Average Weight
25.22 g (3x)
Axes
12 (2x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 106, nr. 1746-1747, pl. 101, pic. 1746  ❐

Literature

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

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.477  🔍

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cn type 8498, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/8498 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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