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cn coin 1078

Connected to Type
CN Type 5236 🔍
Mint
Byzantion 🔍
Region: Thrace
Date
c. 235 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍
Obverse
Die
Byz_1798_V237 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ *ΑVΓ*
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, seen from front, wearing cuirass and paludamentum; gorgoneion on breastplate; left hand visible.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1803_R450 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ЄΠ Α*VΡ* ΔΙΟ*ΝV*ϹΙΟ*V Τ*Ο Β Κ Π ΑΛЄΖΑΝΔΡΑϹ // ΒVΖΑΝ/ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Agonistic table, right, surmounted by prize crown with two palm branches, between two purses, below, amphora.
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Persons
Magistrate
Marcus Aurelius Dionysios 🔍
Magistrate
P. Alexandra 🔍
Sitter
Gordian III. 🔍
Metrology
Denomination
8 unit 🔍
Material
bronze  🔍
Diameter
33 mm
Weight
18.98 g
Owner
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr  
Owner Inventory No.: 484
Provenience: Fonds général 484
Reproduction Owner
BBAW, Berlin [de]
Plaster Cast No: 1803, Paris 1803
Citation
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 116, nr. 1803.1, pl. 106, pic. 1803/1 
Mionnet, T.1. Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, Paris 1806 p. 382, nr. 124 
Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 48, nr. 23a 
Literature
Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 48, nr. 23a  
Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 nr. 1802-1803  
Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 179, nr. 1963  
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cn coin 1078, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1078 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/23]
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