Anchialos, Septimius Severus, Double unit (CN type 22170)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
195-198 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceDouble unit in bronze struck at Anchialos in Thrace under Septimius Severus dated 195-198 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 22170. Obverse: Laureate bust of Septimius Severus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Labour of Heracles: Nude Heracles standing right, strangling the Nemean lion.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- Double unit
- Recorded diameter
- 20.6–21.6 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 5.73 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Anchialos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Septimius Severus
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of Septimius Severus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Labour of Heracles: Nude Heracles standing right, strangling the Nemean lion.
- Obverse legend
- ΑV Κ Λ Ϲ - ϹΕVΗΡΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΑΓΧΙΑ-ΛΕΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/22170
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 22170
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. 426-428, nr. 42-69c, pl. 28-29
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution