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cn coin 29120

Mint
Markianopolis 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

238–241 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΝΤWΝΙΟϹ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ // ΑVΤ Κ Μ
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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Symbol
Ε (position: )
Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Legatus Augusti pro praetore: Tullius Menophilus 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
28 mm
Weight
12.83 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Provenience: Lanz 153 (12 Dec. 2011), 533

Literature

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

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values I, 2005 nr. 1970 var. ❐

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. 1355 ❐

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cn coin 29120, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_29120 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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