Augusta Traiana, Septimius Severus, 5 unit (CN type 1761)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
193-211 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace5 unit in bronze struck at Augusta Traiana in Thrace under Septimius Severus dated 193-211 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 1761. Obverse: Laureate bust of Septimius Severus, right, wearing scale cuirass and paludamentum; gorgoneion on cuirass. Reverse: Homonoia standing left, wearing kalathos, holding patera in right hand and cornucopia in left arm.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- 5 unit
- Recorded diameter
- 27–30.6 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 14.81 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Augusta Traiana
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Septimius Severus
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of Septimius Severus, right, wearing scale cuirass and paludamentum; gorgoneion on cuirass.
- Reverse type
- Homonoia standing left, wearing kalathos, holding patera in right hand and cornucopia in left arm.
- Obverse legend
- ΑΥΤ Κ ϹΠΤΙ ϹΕΥΗΡΟϹ ΠΕ
- Reverse legend
- ΑVΓΟVϹΤΗϹ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΗϹ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/1761
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 1761
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. 74, nr. 129
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 89, nr. 993-996
Research required
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