Traianopolis, Caracalla, One and one half (CN type 2680)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
195-197 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceOne and one half in bronze struck at Traianopolis in Thrace under Caracalla dated 195-197 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 2680. Obverse: Bare-headed bust of youthful Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Heracles (Farnese) standing left, right arm resting on club wraped in lion skin.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- One and one half
- Recorded mean weight
- 2.72 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Traianopolis
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Caracalla
Design
- Obverse type
- Bare-headed bust of youthful Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Heracles (Farnese) standing left, right arm resting on club wraped in lion skin.
- Obverse legend
- Μ ΑVΡΗΛ ΑΝΤΩΝЄΙΝΟϹ Κ
- Reverse legend
- ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/2680
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 2680
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. 169, nr. 45
Research required
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution