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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Marcianopolis| > RP65169
Septimius Severus, 9 April 193 - 4 February 211 A.D., Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior
|Marcianopolis|, |Septimius| |Severus,| |9| |April| |193| |-| |4| |February| |211| |A.D.,| |Marcianopolis,| |Moesia| |Inferior|, Renamed by Trajan after his sister, Ulpia Marciana, Marcianopolis was an important strategic center for centuries. The city was repeatedly destroyed by barbarian raids (Goths, Huns, Avars and others) but also was repeatedly rebuilt and prospered. During Valens' conflict with the Goths, Marcianopolis was a temporary capital of the empire and the largest city in Thrace. An Avar raid destroyed the city in 614 or 615.
RP65169. Bronze AE 22, SNG Budapest 81 (same dies); AMNG I/I obv: 587/ rev: 590; Varbanov I 735a var. (AE20, CEΠ); BMC Thrace p. 28, 7 var. (CE); H-J Marcianopolis -, Choice gVF, Markianopolis (Devnya, Bulgaria) mint, weight 6.062g, maximum diameter 22.3mm, die axis 225o, 193 - 211 A.D.; obverse AY Λ CEΠTI CEYHPOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse MAPKIANOΠOΛITΩN, Homonoia standing left, kalathos on head, patera in right hand, cornucopia in left hand; rare; SOLD











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