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cn coin 22461

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CN Type 7223 🔍

Mint
Germe 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΓЄΡΜΗΝΩΝ
Design
Nude Heracles standing facing, head left, resting right hand on club set on ground, holding lion skin in left arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
19 mm
Weight
2.49 g
Axis
6
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41767057

Provenience: Fonds général.354A

Citation

Ehling, Die Münzprägung der mysischen Stadt Germe in der römischen Kaiserzeit, Bonn 2001 p. 159, nr. 278.3  ❐

Spoerri Butcher et al., RPC VII 1: Roman provincial coinage. Vol. VII 1: De Gordien Ier à Gordien III (238-244 après J.-C.). Province d'Asie, London : Paris 2006 nr. 146.11  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 1015, pl. 52  ❐

Literature

Spoerri Butcher et al., RPC VII 1: Roman provincial coinage. Vol. VII 1: De Gordien Ier à Gordien III (238-244 après J.-C.). Province d'Asie, London : Paris 2006 nr. 146 ❐

Ehling, Die Münzprägung der mysischen Stadt Germe in der römischen Kaiserzeit, Bonn 2001 p. 159, nr. 277-278 ❐

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