Bizye, Otacilia Severa, 4 unit (CN type 1609)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
244-248 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace4 unit in bronze struck at Bizye in Thrace under Otacilia Severa dated 244-248 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 1609. Obverse: Diademed and draped bust of Otacilia Severa, right. Reverse: Nude Aphrodite standing facing, covering breasts with right arm and pudenda with left hand; at her feet, garment on a vessel.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- 4 unit
- Recorded diameter
- 24 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 6.49 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Bizye
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Otacilia Severa
Design
- Obverse type
- Diademed and draped bust of Otacilia Severa, right.
- Reverse type
- Nude Aphrodite standing facing, covering breasts with right arm and pudenda with left hand; at her feet, garment on a vessel.
- Obverse legend
- Μ ΩΤΑΚΕΙΛΙΑ ϹΕΒΗΡΑ ϹΕΒ
- Reverse legend
- ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/1609
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 1609
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. 75, nr. 150
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 286, nr. 14-17, pl. 54
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 137, nr. 1591, annot. Abweichende Interpretation der Ikonographie.
- external concordance
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution