Perinthos, Trajan, 5 unit (CN type 1576)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
98-117 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace5 unit in bronze struck at Perinthos in Thrace under Trajan dated 98-117 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 1576. Obverse: Laureate head of Trajan, right. Reverse: Homonoia standing left, holding patera and cornucopia.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- 5 unit
- Recorded diameter
- 31–33 mm (from 5 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 20.76 g (mean of 4 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Perinthos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Trajan
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate head of Trajan, right.
- Reverse type
- Homonoia standing left, holding patera and cornucopia.
- Obverse legend
- ΑV(Τ) ΚΑΙ ΝΕ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΣ ΣΕΒΑ(Σ) ΓΡ, ΓΕ
- Reverse legend
- ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/1576
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 1576
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. 146, nr. 324-328, pl. 16
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 92, nr. 683, annot. http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/683/
- external concordanceRPC III, 683
Research required
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