Bizye, Septimius Severus, Double unit (CN type 1415)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
193-211 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceDouble unit in bronze struck at Bizye in Thrace under Septimius Severus dated 193-211 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 1415. Obverse: Laureate head of Septimius Severus, right. Reverse: Cybele enthroned left, wearing kalathos, holding patera and tympanon.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- Double unit
- Recorded diameter
- 20 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 4.8 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Bizye
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Septimius Severus
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate head of Septimius Severus, right.
- Reverse type
- Cybele enthroned left, wearing kalathos, holding patera and tympanon.
- Obverse legend
- ΑV Κ Λ ϹΕΠ ϹΕVΗΡΟϹ Π
- Reverse legend
- ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/1415
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 1415
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. 56, nr. 39
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographypl. 9, pic. 469
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 210, nr. 15, pl. 16
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 122, nr. 1446
Research required
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