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cn coin 22475

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CN Type 7271 🔍

Mint
Germe 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 241-244 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
ΕΠΙ ΑΡΙϹΤΟΝΕΙΚΟV ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ
Design
Apollo and Marsyas; on the left, Apollo seated on rock and holding lyre, right; on the right, Marsyas standing facing, head to left, holding flute in each hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
28 mm
Weight
11.93 g
Axis
6
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41767071

Provenience: Fonds général.365; Waddington 811

Citation

Ehling, Die Münzprägung der mysischen Stadt Germe in der römischen Kaiserzeit, Bonn 2001 p. 152, nr. 228.1  ❐

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. 117.1  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 1005, pl. 52  ❐

Literature

Ehling, Die Münzprägung der mysischen Stadt Germe in der römischen Kaiserzeit, Bonn 2001 p. 152, nr. 228, annot. 242 n. Chr. ❐

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. 117 ❐

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cn coin 22475, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_22475 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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