Perinthos, Marc Aurel, Double unit (CN type 2435)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
139-161 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceDouble unit in bronze struck at Perinthos in Thrace under Marc Aurel dated 139-161 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 2435. Obverse: Bare-headed bust of youthful Marcus Aurelius, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Head of (youthful) hero Perinthos, right, wearing taenia.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- Double unit
- Recorded diameter
- 20.2–26 mm (from 9 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 6.81 g (mean of 6 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Perinthos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Marc Aurel
Design
- Obverse type
- Bare-headed bust of youthful Marcus Aurelius, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Head of (youthful) hero Perinthos, right, wearing taenia.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΟVΗΡΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
- Reverse legend
- ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/2435
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 2435
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. 162, nr. 411-418, pl. 22
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 8657, annot. temporary
- external concordanceRPC IV.1, 8657
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution