Bizye, Caracalla, 5 unit (CN type 1445)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
197-217 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace5 unit in bronze struck at Bizye in Thrace under Caracalla dated 197-217 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 1445. Obverse: Laureate bust of bearded Caracalla, 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
- 27–32 mm (from 6 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 14.32 g (mean of 4 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Bizye
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Caracalla
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of bearded Caracalla, 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
- ΑV Κ Μ ΑVΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ Π
- Reverse legend
- ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/1445
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 1445
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. 59, nr. 51
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 220, nr. 29-32, pl. 21
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 125, nr. 1479
Research required
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