cn type 8451

Edition

cn.byzantium.1_ed.473

Mint

Byzantion 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 222-235 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

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

ΕΠ Μ ΑVΡ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ ΑΙΛ ΦΗϹΤΗϹ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΑ

Design

Laureate emperor standing right, and City goddess standing left; each holding a patera over an agonistic table in the middle, surmounted by prize crown with two palm branches.
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Persons

Sitter

Severus Alexander 🔍 ❐

Magistrate

Marcus Aurelius Fronto 🔍

Magistrate

Aelia Festa 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

Medallion 🔍

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Average Weight

38.20 g (1x)

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 105, nr. 1743  ❐

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 104,92  ❐

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. 45  ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.473 🔍

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