Perinthos, Nero, 5 unit (CN type 1489)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
54-68 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace5 unit in bronze struck at Perinthos in Thrace under Nero dated 54-68 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 1489. Obverse: Laureate head of Nero, right. Reverse: Labour of Heracles: Nude Heracles standing right, holding club and lion skin; in front, apple tree of the Hesperides entwined by serpent (Ladon).
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- 5 unit
- Recorded diameter
- 31 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 17.25 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Perinthos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Nero
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate head of Nero, right.
- Reverse type
- Labour of Heracles: Nude Heracles standing right, holding club and lion skin; in front, apple tree of the Hesperides entwined by serpent (Ladon).
- Reverse legend
- ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/1489
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 1489
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. 131, nr. 241
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 320, nr. 1757
- external concordanceRPC I, 1757
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution