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cn coin 1073

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CN Type 11616 🔍

Mint
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_1799_R446 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse Є*ΠΜ* *ΑVΡ* ΔΙΟΝVϹΙΟV ΤΟ Β - Κ ΑΛЄΖΑΝ*ΔΡ*ΑϹ // ΒVΖΑ*ΝΤ*Ι*ΩΝ*
Design
Four torches.
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Persons

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Dionysios 🔍

Magistrate: P. Alexandra 🔍

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
8 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 34.9 mm / Min: 34 mm
Weight
23.81 g
Axis
1
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Owner Inventory No.: GR 8536

Provenience: vor 1875

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1799, Wien 88

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 117, nr. 1799.2  ❐

Tiepolo and Theupolus, Musei Theupoli Antiqua Numismata, Venetiis 1736 nr. 1044  ❐

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. 1799-1801 ❐

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 1073, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1073 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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