Perinthos, Septimius Severus, Medallion (CN type 2539)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
193-211 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceMedallion in bronze struck at Perinthos in Thrace under Septimius Severus dated 193-211 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 2539. Obverse: Laureate bust of Septimius Severus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Labour of Heracles: Nude Heracles holding club and apples of the Hesperides; behind him, apple-tree of the Hesperides, entwined by serpent (Ladon), and one Hesperide.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- Medallion
- Recorded diameter
- 38–40.1 mm (from 8 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 35.59 g (mean of 4 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Perinthos
- 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 holding club and apples of the Hesperides; behind him, apple-tree of the Hesperides, entwined by serpent (Ladon), and one Hesperide.
- Obverse legend
- ΑV Κ Λ ϹЄΠΤΙ ϹЄVΗΡΟϹ ΠЄ
- Reverse legend
- ΦΙΛΑΔЄΛΦЄΙΑ ΠЄΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ ΝЄΩΚΟΡΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/2539
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 2539
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. 184, nr. 526-527, pl. 30
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution