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cn coin 40718

Mint
Dionysopolis 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

244-249 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
ΔΙΟΝVϹΟΠΟΛЄΙΤΩΝ
Design
Horseman (Theos Megas) wearing fluttering chlamys on horse pacing left, holding cornucopia and reins.
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Symbol
Ε (position: in exergue)
Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Owner

Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein, Schlossmuseum, Münzkabinett, Gotha, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1./Co2948

Literature

Tachev, Yanislav, The Coinage of Dionysopolis IV century BC - III century AD, Sofia 2020 p. 590-592, nr. 223-239, pl. 52-53 ❐

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. 1640 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values I, 2005 p. 93, nr. 545 ❐

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cn coin 40718, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_40718 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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