Pautalia, Caracalla, 4 unit (CN type 21264)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
203 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace4 unit in bronze struck at Pautalia in Thrace under Caracalla dated 203 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 21264. Obverse: Radiate bust of Caracalla, right, seen from front, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Serpent with fishtail coiling, bent four times, radiate head right. Ground line. Border of dots.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- 4 unit
- Recorded diameter
- 30 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 12.21 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Pautalia
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Caracalla
Design
- Obverse type
- Radiate bust of Caracalla, right, seen from front, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Serpent with fishtail coiling, bent four times, radiate head right. Ground line. Border of dots.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ Μ ΑVΡΗ - ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΟVΛΠΙΑϹ ΠΑVΤΑΛΙΑϹ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Recorded findspots
- Viminacium, Thermae, room 1
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/21264
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 21264
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. 414/418, nr. 245/260, pl. 121/123
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution