Topeiros, Caracalla, Double unit (CN type 21315)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
198-217 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceDouble unit in bronze struck at Topeiros in Thrace under Caracalla dated 198-217 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 21315. Obverse: Laureate head of Caracalla, right. Reverse: Heracles seated left on rock covered with lion skin; in front, nymph ? holding taenia (?) with both hands.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- Double unit
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Topeiros
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Caracalla
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate head of Caracalla, right.
- Reverse type
- Heracles seated left on rock covered with lion skin; in front, nymph ? holding taenia (?) with both hands.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΟΥΛΠΙΑϹ ΤΟΠΕΙΡΟΥ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/21315
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 21315
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Documented
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Research required
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Research required
- Licensed photograph
- Research required
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Weight not recorded in the source corpus
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- No rights-cleared photograph attached yet