Serdika, Geta, Double unit (CN type 783)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
209-211 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceDouble unit in bronze struck at Serdika in Thrace under Geta dated 209-211 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 783. Obverse: Laureate head of bearded Geta, right. Reverse: Ares standing left, wearing helmet, holding shield set down at his feet and spear.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- Double unit
- Recorded mean weight
- 3.82 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Serdika
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Geta
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate head of bearded Geta, right.
- Reverse type
- Ares standing left, wearing helmet, holding shield set down at his feet and spear.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ Κ Π ϹΕΠΤΙ ΓΕΤΑϹ
- Reverse legend
- ϹЄΡΔΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/783
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 783
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. 74, nr. 474
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 143, nr. 12.22.11.3
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 267, nr. 2510
Research required
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution