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cn coin 4184

Connected to Type

CN Type 3293 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0852_V_A 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse · ΑVΤ · Κ · Μ ⠁ ΑΝΤ . ΓΟ-ΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ ⠁ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass, seen from front, slight drapery over left shoulder; gorgoneion on breastplate.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0853_R853 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ - ΔΙᛈ *ΝΕ*ΩΚΟ//ΡΩΝ
Design
Nude bearded Heracles advancing right, lion skin over left shoulder, carying the Erymanthian Boar with legs upwards over left shoulder; at right, Eurystheus standing left in a pithos, begging with raised arms. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 39.5 mm / Min: 39 mm
Weight
29.39 g
Axis
1
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Owner Inventory No.: GR 8958

Provenience: vor 1875

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 853, Wien 8959

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 256, nr. 853, pl. 53, pic. 853  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 256, nr. 853, pl. 53 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 72, nr. 532 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/235765 ❐

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cn coin 4184, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4184 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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