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cn coin 4156

Connected to Type

CN Type 3272 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0836_V_G 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔ-ΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate head of Gordian III, right.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0841_R841 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩ-Ν ΔΙᛈ ΝΕΩΚΟ//ΡΩΝ
Design
Nude athlete standing facing, head left, hair bound, right foot advanced, placing right hand into a prize urn. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
3 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm
Weight
9.40 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 841, London Perinthos BMC 160, 71

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 253, nr. 841.1  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 160, nr. 71  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 253, nr. 841 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 69, nr. 516 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/235548 ❐

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cn coin 4156, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4156 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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