Maroneia, Volusianus, 4 unit (CN type 1352)
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
251-253 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace4 unit in bronze struck at Maroneia in Thrace under Volusianus dated 251-253 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 1352. Obverse: Laureate bust of Volusian, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Nude Dionysus standing left, holding bunch of grapes and two spears.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- 4 unit
- Recorded diameter
- 28–30 mm (from 6 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 11.75 g (mean of 5 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Maroneia
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Volusianus
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of Volusian, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Nude Dionysus standing left, holding bunch of grapes and two spears.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ ΒΙΒ ΟVΟVΛΛЄϹΤΙΑΝΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΜΑΡΩΝΕΙΤΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/1352
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 1352
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Documented
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Research required
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 80, nr. 157
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 218-219, nr. 1728-1732
- external concordanceRPC IX, 157
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