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cn coin 41427

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CN Type 16037 🔍

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Region: Thrace  

Date

238–244 AD

Obverse
Legend
ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ
Design
Radiate bust of Gordian III, left, seen from front, wearing cuirass and paludamentum; gorgoneion on breastplate; right hand raised, holding globe in the left hand.
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Reverse
Legend
ΟΔΗϹΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Radiate emperor (Gordian) in military attire standing left, holding spear and sphere, from which a Nike with wreath and palm branch floats towards him.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 35 mm / Min: 32 mm
Weight
20.43 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18276059

Provenience: Alter Bestand (vor 1700)

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Xanten, DE [DE] ❐

Citation

Beger, Thesaurus Brandenburgicus Selectus: sive gemmarum, et numismatum Græcorum, in cimeliarchio electorali Brandenburgico, elegantiorum series, commentario illustratæ, Coloniae Marchicae 1696 p. 724  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 195, nr. 16  ❐

Pick and Regling, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. 2. Halbbd., Abt. 1: Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. Die Münzen von Odessos und Tomis ; mit einer Ergänzungstafel, Berlin 1910 nr. 2316/1  ❐

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. 1495/1  ❐

Literature

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. 1495 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/159455 ❐

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cn coin 41427, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_41427 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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