Serdika, Geta, Double unit (CN type 643)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
197-205 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceDouble unit in bronze struck at Serdika in Thrace under Geta dated 197-205 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 643. Obverse: Laureate bust of youthful Geta, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Basket of fruits.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- Double unit
- Recorded diameter
- 17 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Serdika
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Geta
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of youthful Geta, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Basket of fruits.
- Obverse legend
- Λ ϹΕ ΚΑΙ ΓΕΤΑϹ
- Reverse legend
- ϹЄΡΔΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/643
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 643
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Documented
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Research required
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 66, nr. 415, pl. 9
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 152, nr. 12.22.52.1
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 267-268, nr. 2514-2518
Research required
- Weight not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution