Perinthos, Trajan, Double unit (CN type 2094)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
98-117 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceDouble unit in bronze struck at Perinthos in Thrace under Trajan dated 98-117 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 2094. Obverse: Laureate head of Trajan, right. Reverse: Nude Dionysus standing left, holding cantharus and thyrsus; at his feet, left, altar; at left, star.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- Double unit
- Recorded diameter
- 19 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 6.4 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Perinthos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Trajan
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate head of Trajan, right.
- Reverse type
- Nude Dionysus standing left, holding cantharus and thyrsus; at his feet, left, altar; at left, star.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤΟΚΡ Ν ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒΑ ϹΡ ΔΑΚ
- Reverse legend
- ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/2094
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 2094
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. 149-150, nr. 348
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 90, nr. 699, annot. http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/699/
- external concordanceRPC III, 699
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution