Serdika, Geta, 4 unit (CN type 573)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
209-211 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace4 unit in bronze struck at Serdika in Thrace under Geta dated 209-211 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 573. Obverse: Laureate bust of bearded Geta, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Dionysus on panther advancing left, holding cantharus and thyrsus.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- 4 unit
- Recorded diameter
- 30 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 17.53 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Serdika
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Geta
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of bearded Geta, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Dionysus on panther advancing left, holding cantharus and thyrsus.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ Κ Π ϹЄΠΤΙ ΓЄΤΑϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΟVΛΠΙΑϹ ϹΕΡΔΙΚΗϹ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/573
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 573
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. 70, nr. 440
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 142, nr. 12.22.8.1
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 271, nr. 2560-2561
Research required
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