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cn coin 1078

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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: 2026/03/20]

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