Serdika, Caracalla, Double unit (CN type 564)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
197-217 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceDouble unit in bronze struck at Serdika in Thrace under Caracalla dated 197-217 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 564. Obverse: Laureate bust of youthful Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Draped bust of Isis, right, wearing lotus.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- Double unit
- Recorded diameter
- 16–18 mm (from 3 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 3.6 g (mean of 4 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Serdika
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Caracalla
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of youthful Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Draped bust of Isis, right, wearing lotus.
- Obverse legend
- Μ ΑV ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ϹЄΡΔΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/564
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 564
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. 234, nr. 6
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 61, nr. 374
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 234, nr. 2057
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution