Germe, bronze (CN type 3784)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 147-161 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
MysiaCoin type in bronze struck at Germe in Mysia dated ca. 147-161 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 3784. Obverse: Draped male bust of the personification of the Roman Senate, right. Reverse: Nude Heracles standing facing, head left, resting right hand on club set on ground, holding lion skin in left arm.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded diameter
- 21–21.6 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 5.48 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Germe
- Region
- Mysia
- Authority type
- City (pseudo-autonomous)
Design
- Obverse type
- Draped male bust of the personification of the Roman Senate, right.
- Reverse type
- Nude Heracles standing facing, head left, resting right hand on club set on ground, holding lion skin in left arm.
- Obverse legend
- ΙΕΡΑ ϹVΝΚΛΗΤΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/3784
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 3784
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. 171, nr. 342, annot. um 155 n. Chr.?
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 659, annot. ca. 147-161, wohl kurz nach 147 n. Chr.
- external concordanceRPC IV.2, 659
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution