Bizye, Hadrian, 5 unit (CN type 1376)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
124-127 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace5 unit in bronze struck at Bizye in Thrace under Hadrian dated 124-127 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 1376. Obverse: Laureate bust of Hadrian, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Nude Apollo standing left, legs crossed, holding patera in right hand, left hand over serpent coiling around omphalos.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- 5 unit
- Recorded diameter
- 30 mm (from 3 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 20.73 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Bizye
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Hadrian
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of Hadrian, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Nude Apollo standing left, legs crossed, holding patera in right hand, left hand over serpent coiling around omphalos.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ ΤΡΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡ
- Reverse legend
- ΕΠΙ ΤΙΝΕ ΡΟVΦΟV ΠΡΕϹΒΕVΤΟV ΚΑΙ ΑΝ ΤΟV Ϲ ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/1376
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 1376
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
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 50, nr. 5
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 13, nr. 2
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 190, nr. 13-15, pl. 6
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 119, nr. 1418
- external concordance
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution