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cn coin 4166

Connected to Type

CN Type 3279 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0845_V_I 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ - ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ *ΑV*
Design
Laureate head of Gordian III, right.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0845_R845 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩ-Ν - ΔΙᛈ *ΝΕ*ΩΚΟΡ
Design
Nude athlete advancing left, head right, hair bound, holding wreath in outstretched right hand and palm branch in left arm. Short ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
3 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26 mm / Min: 24 mm
Weight
7.52 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: 845, London 87

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 254, nr. 845.2  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 160, nr. 69  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 254, nr. 845, pl. 52-53 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 69, nr. 514 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/235550 ❐

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cn coin 4166, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4166 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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