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cn coin 1083

Connected to Type

CN Type 5238 🔍

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Byz_1805_V239 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Μ · ΑΝΤ · ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ · ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Byz_1805_R452 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ЄΠ *ΑVΡ* ΔΙΟΝVϹΙΟV Τ Β Κ Π ΑΛЄΖΑΝΔΡΑϹ / i.f.l. Β-Υ/ΖΑΝ-ΤΙ/Ω-Ν
Design
Poseidon standing left, holding fish in right hand, left resting on trident; right foot on a prow, left.
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Persons

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Dionysios 🔍

Magistrate: P. Alexandra 🔍

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
29 mm
Weight
15.31 g
Owner

Ashmolean Museum, Heberden Coin Room, Oxford, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 1805, OXF 55

Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 117, nr. 1805, pl. 106, pic. 1805  ❐

Literature

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 117, nr. 1805, pl. 106, pic. 1805 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 180, nr. 1965 ❐

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cn coin 1083, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_1083 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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