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cn coin 1071

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CN Type 5220 🔍

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Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 238-244 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_1798_R444 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse Є*ΠΜ* *ΑVΡ* ΔΙΟ*ΝV*ϹΙΟ*VΤ* Β Κ Π ΑΛЄΖΑΝ*ΔΡ*ΑϹ / i.f.u. Β-Υ//ΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ / ΤΟ Β
Design
Flaming torch.
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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
23.65 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 485

Provenience: Fonds général 485

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1798, Paris 485

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 115, nr. 1798.2  ❐

Svoronos, Νομίσματα ανάλεκτα 3, 1839 pl. 2, pic. 4  ❐

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. 1798 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 179, nr. 1961-1962 ❐

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cn coin 1071, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1071 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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