Adramyttion, Caracalla, bronze (CN type 3043)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
218-222 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
MysiaCoin type in bronze struck at Adramyttion in Mysia under Caracalla dated 218-222 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 3043. Obverse: Laureate bust of Elagabalus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Asclepius standing facing, head left, holding patera in right hand, left resting on serpent-staff; at his feet, left Telesphoros.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded mean weight
- 25.62 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Adramyttion
- Region
- Mysia
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Caracalla
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of Elagabalus, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Asclepius standing facing, head left, holding patera in right hand, left resting on serpent-staff; at his feet, left Telesphoros.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ΑΝΤΩΝЄΙΝΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ЄΠΙ ϹΤΡ [...] ΑΔΡΑΜVΤΗΝΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/3043
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 3043
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Research required
- 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. 226, nr. 200
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 57, pl. 4
- external concordanceunter Elagabal: Zeus standing facing, looking l., holding eagle (reworked as a patera) and resting on long sceptre (reworked as Asclepius' staff); to l., small Telesphorus (Telesphoros engraved(?) ).
Research required
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution