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cn coin 4040

Connected to Type

CN Type 3204 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0804_V_D 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Μ ΑΝΤΩ ΓΟΡ-ΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓΟ
Design
Radiate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0809_R809 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝ-ΘΙΩ-Ν // ΔΙᛈ *ΝΕ*ΩΚΟ/ΡΩΝ
Design
Galley, under full sail, sailing right, eight rowers on board and helmsman seated on stern in front of two standards.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
33 mm
Weight
19.18 g
Axis
12
Owner

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung McClean

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 809, Fitzwilliam Museum McClean Collection

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 247, nr. 809.2  ❐

Grose, Catalogue of the McClean collection of Greek coins 2, Cambridge 1926 p. 152, nr. 4270, pl. 155, pic. 1  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 247-248, nr. 809-810, pl. 50 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 71, nr. 526 ❐

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cn coin 4040, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4040 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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