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cn coin 22477

Connected to Type

CN Type 3717 🔍

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
ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ
Design
Heracles advancing right, club on shoulder, dragging Cerberus behind him.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
3.32 g
Axis
6
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 41767073

Provenience: Fonds général.367; Waddington 813

Citation

Ehling, Die Münzprägung der mysischen Stadt Germe in der römischen Kaiserzeit, Bonn 2001 p. 160, nr. 284.7  ❐

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. 145.11  ❐

Levante, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. France. 5, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques. Mysie 5, Paris/Zürich 2001 nr. 1017, pl. 52  ❐

Literature

Ehling, Die Münzprägung der mysischen Stadt Germe in der römischen Kaiserzeit, Bonn 2001 p. 160, nr. 284-286 ❐

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 p. 136, nr. 145 ❐

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cn coin 22477, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_22477 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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