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cn coin 10642

Connected to Type

CN Type 6543 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ - ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ Α*VΓ*
Design
Radiate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔ-ΡΙΑ-ΝΟΠΟ-ΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Orestes, Iphigenia and Pylades (or Orpheus, Euridice and Hermes): to left, Orestes, holding patera; in the middle, Iphigenia, holding statue of Artemis (Tauropolos); to left, Pylades; in front, behind and in exergue, river-god, each holding reed.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm
Weight
13.24 g
Axis
8
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18249208

Provenience: 1917/195 - Vorbesitzer Horsky

Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 194, nr. 452.1  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 312, nr. 3785 ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 193-194, nr. 449, 451-452 ❐

Nollé, Zu den Gründungstraditionen des thrakischen Hadrianopolis 39, 2009 p. 131 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 312, nr. 3785 ❐

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cn coin 10642, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10642 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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