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cn coin 15157

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CN Type 8306 🔍

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Sestos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ
Design
Laureate head of Gordian III, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ϹΗ-Ϲ-ΤΙΩΝ
Design
Nude Apollo standing facing, head left, holding bird? / patera? in right hand and long branch? / sceptre? in left arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
17.8 mm
Weight
2.56 g
Axis
6
Owner

Coll. H.I., , de

Provenience: Naumann Num Auction 69, 218

Public Commentary

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/68675

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 323, nr. 2990 ❐

N. A. Mušmov, Antičnit moneti na Balkanskaja poluostrov i monetit na bulgarskit care, 1912 nr. 5548 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 nr. 2990 (Described as Zeus with eagle and sceptre.)  ❐

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cn coin 15157, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_15157 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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