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Object Type
Museum number: 1844,0425.833
Description: Copper Alloy coin. (whole); Bust of Trebonianus Gallus, right; clad in cuirass and paludamentum; dotted border. (obverse); Personification of Moesia, facing, head to left; clad in long chiton; extending her two hands over a bull to her left, standing right, and a lion to her right, standing left; dotted border. (reverse)
State
Authority
Regnal date: 14
Cultures/periods
Production date: 251-253
Production place: Minted in: Viminacium (historic city - Moesia)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Die-axis: 6 o'clock; Diameter: 27 millimetres (maximum); Weight: 9.370 grammes
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: BMC Greek (Tauric Chersonese) / Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c. (43, p.19); SNG Copenhagen / Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Royal Collection of coins and medals, Danish National Museum (43 vols) (167-169) (type); SNG Hungary II / Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Hungary: Budapest Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum: Volume II Dacia-Moesia Superior (544-550) (type); Pick 1898 / Die Antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien: Band I: Viminacium - Nicopolis (165-168) (type)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: emperor/empress; allegory/personification
Associated names: Named in inscription & portrayed: Trebonianus Gallus; Representation of: Moesia
Acquisition name: Purchased from: William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire; Purchased through: Christie's; Purchased through: Harry Osborn Cureton
Acquisition date: 1844
Department: Coins and Medals
Registration number: 1844,0425.833
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: DEV.425
C&M catalogue number: GC3 (BMC Greek (Tauric Chersonese)) (19) (43)

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