Serdika, Gallienus, 4 unit (CN type 587)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
253-268 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace4 unit in bronze struck at Serdika in Thrace under Gallienus dated 253-268 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 587. Obverse: Laureate bust of Gallienus, right, wearing scale cuirass. Reverse: Serpent with nimbate head coiling right, bent four times.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- 4 unit
- Recorded diameter
- 26 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 16.29 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Serdika
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Gallienus
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of Gallienus, right, wearing scale cuirass.
- Reverse type
- Serpent with nimbate head coiling right, bent four times.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ Κ ΓΑΛΛΙΗΝΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΟVΛΠΙΑϹ ϹΕΡΔΙΚΗϹ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/587
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 587
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. 75, nr. 483
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 279, nr. 2644-2645
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution