Serdika, Caracalla, Double unit (CN type 853)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
212-217 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceDouble unit in bronze struck at Serdika in Thrace under Caracalla dated 212-217 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 853. Obverse: Laureate bust of bearded Caracalla, right. Reverse: Dionysus seated on prora, left, holding grapes and thyrsus.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- Double unit
- Recorded mean weight
- 3.08 g (mean of 3 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Serdika
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Caracalla
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of bearded Caracalla, right.
- Reverse type
- Dionysus seated on prora, left, holding grapes and thyrsus.
- Obverse legend
- ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥ ΣΕΥ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟΣ
- Reverse legend
- ϹЄΡΔΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/853
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 853
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. 81, nr. 12.18.8.9
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 234, nr. 2067-2068
Research required
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution