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cn coin 12111

Connected to Type

CN Type 6542 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ Α*VΓ*
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse Α-ΔΡ-Ι-Α-ΝΟ//ΠΟΛЄΙΤ/ΩΝ
Design
Nude Triptolemos standing in biga, right, drawn by two winged serpents, wearing fluttering chlamys, holding seeds in chlamys with left hand, sowing with right hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
8.59 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: L 2111

Provenience: Fonds général 706

Literature

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 193, nr. 448 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 317, nr. 3861 ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 193, nr. 448 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 317, nr. 3861 ❐

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cn coin 12111, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_12111 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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