Dionysopolis, unit (CN type 20252)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 150-100 v. Chr.
Issuing entity
Moesia inferiorunit in bronze struck at Dionysopolis in Moesia inferior dated ca. 150-100 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 20252. Obverse: Turreted head of Cybele, right. Reverse: Cybele enthroned left, holding patera in outstretched right hand, resting left arm on tympanum.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- unit
- Recorded diameter
- 19–25.2 mm (from 6 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 7.37 g (mean of 6 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Dionysopolis
- Region
- Moesia inferior
- Authority type
- City
Design
- Obverse type
- Turreted head of Cybele, right.
- Reverse type
- Cybele enthroned left, holding patera in outstretched right hand, resting left arm on tympanum.
- Reverse legend
- ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟ ΔΗΜΟΦΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Hellenistic Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20252
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 20252
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. 424-430, nr. 1-53, pl. 33-36
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 122-127 var.
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 294, pl. 29
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 236, nr. 1774
Research required
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