Serdika, Caracalla, Double unit (CN type 568)
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 568. Obverse: Laureate bust of youthful Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Lion walking right.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- Double unit
- Recorded diameter
- 17–18 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 3.54 g (mean of 3 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
- Lion walking right.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑV ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ϹЄΡΔΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/568
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 568
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. 64, nr. 400-401
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 135, nr. 12.18.53.2-6
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 236, nr. 2108-2111
Research required
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