Serdika, Caracalla, 4 unit (CN type 528)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
212-217 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace4 unit in bronze struck at Serdika in Thrace under Caracalla dated 212-217 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 528. Obverse: Laureate bust of Caracalla, left, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, holding shield and spear. Reverse: Nude Apollo (Bonus Eventus) standing left, holding patera and laurel-branch.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- 4 unit
- Recorded diameter
- 29 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 15.63 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Serdika
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Caracalla
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of Caracalla, left, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, holding shield and spear.
- Reverse type
- Nude Apollo (Bonus Eventus) standing left, holding patera and laurel-branch.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡ ϹΕV ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΟVΛΠΙΑϹ ϹΕΡΔΙΚΗϹ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/528
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 528
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. 35, nr. 176
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 240, nr. 2163
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution