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cn coin 29032

Mint
Markianopolis 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

238-244 AD

Obverse
Legend
Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, draped and cuirassed, right, and of Serapis, draped and wearing kalathos, left.
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Reverse
Legend
VΠ ΜΗΝΟΦΙΛΟV ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ
Design
City view of Marcianopolis walls with thirteen towers and city gate; inside the wall, tetrastyle temple with statue, two basilicae, and flamming altar.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Legatus Augusti pro praetore: Tullius Menophilus 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
29 mm
Weight
14.10 g
Axis
1
Owner

Provenience: CNG Triton XIV (4 Jan 2011), 789

Literature

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 nr. 1167 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values I, 2005 nr. 1972 ❐

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 p. 316, nr. 1167 ❐

Mairat and Spoerri Butcher, RPC VII 2: Roman provincial coinage. Vol. VII 2: From Gordian I to Gordian III (AD 238–244): all provinces except Asia. print and online, London 2022 nr. 1356 ❐

Mairat and Spoerri Butcher, RPC VII 2: Roman provincial coinage. Vol. VII 2: From Gordian I to Gordian III (AD 238–244): all provinces except Asia. print and online, London 2022 nr. 1354 ❐

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cn coin 29032, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_29032 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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