Anchialos, Septimius Severus, 5 unit (CN type 22216)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
208 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace5 unit in bronze struck at Anchialos in Thrace under Septimius Severus dated 208 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 22216. Obverse: Laureate bust of Septimius Severus, right, wearing scale cuirass. Reverse: Closed and crenellated city gate, flanked by two towers; below, ship on four wave-lines.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- 5 unit
- Recorded diameter
- 26 mm (from 1 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 scale cuirass.
- Reverse type
- Closed and crenellated city gate, flanked by two towers; below, ship on four wave-lines.
- Obverse legend
- ΑV Κ Λ ϹΕΠΤ - ϹΕVΗΡΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΟVΛΠΙΑΝΩΝ ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/22216
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 22216
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
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 492, nr. 533-534, pl. 61
Research required
- Weight not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution