Sestos, Caracalla, bronze (CN type 12792)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
197-217 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceCoin type in bronze struck at Sestos in Thrace under Caracalla dated 197-217 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 12792. Obverse: Laureate bust of youthful Caracalla, right, wearing paludamentum. Reverse: Nude Apollo standing facing, head left, holding a crow and a laurel-branch.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded mean weight
- 3.77 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Sestos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Caracalla
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of youthful Caracalla, right, wearing paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Nude Apollo standing facing, head left, holding a crow and a laurel-branch.
- Obverse legend
- Μ ΑVΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ϹΗϹΤΙΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/12792
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 12792
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Research required
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Research required
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution