Bizye, Hadrian, 3 unit (CN type 21881)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
117-119 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace3 unit in bronze struck at Bizye in Thrace under Hadrian dated 117-119 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 21881. Obverse: Laureate bust of Hadrian, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Nude Apollo standing facing, head left, holding patera in outstretched right hand and laurel-branch in left hand.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- 3 unit
- Recorded diameter
- 26 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 10.41 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Bizye
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Hadrian
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of Hadrian, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Nude Apollo standing facing, head left, holding patera in outstretched right hand and laurel-branch in left hand.
- Obverse legend
- ΑΥΤΟ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΓΕΡ
- Reverse legend
- ΒΙΖV-Η-ΝΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/21881
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 21881
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. 188, nr. 9-12, pl. 5
- external concordance
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution