Serdika, Caracalla, 4 unit (CN type 514)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
197-217 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace4 unit in bronze struck at Serdika in Thrace under Caracalla dated 197-217 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 514. Obverse: Laureate bust of bearded Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Serapis standing left, wearing kalathos, raising right arm, holding sceptre in left hand.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- 4 unit
- Recorded diameter
- 28–30.9 mm (from 6 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 16.13 g (mean of 6 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Serdika
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Caracalla
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of bearded Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Serapis standing left, wearing kalathos, raising right arm, holding sceptre in left hand.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ(Η) ϹΕV(Η) ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΟVΛΠΙΑϹ ϹΕΡΔΙΚΗϹ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/514
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 514
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. 72, nr. 12.18.6.6-10
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 27, nr. 115-121
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 261-262, nr. 2435-2442
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 793, pl. 16
Research required
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