Bizye, Caracalla, 4 unit (CN type 1439)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
195-197 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace4 unit in bronze struck at Bizye in Thrace under Caracalla dated 195-197 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 1439. Obverse: Bare-headed bust of youthful Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Heracles standing right, resting on club in right hand, holding lion skin and apple in left hand.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- 4 unit
- Recorded diameter
- 26–28.3 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 7.59 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Bizye
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Caracalla
Design
- Obverse type
- Bare-headed bust of youthful Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Heracles standing right, resting on club in right hand, holding lion skin and apple in left hand.
- Obverse legend
- Μ ΑVΡΗΛ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ
- Reverse legend
- ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/1439
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 1439
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. 58, nr. 46
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 216, nr. 5-6, pl. 19
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 125, nr. 1469
Research required
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