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cn coin 4186

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CN Type 3295 🔍

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_0855_R855 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ ΔΙᛈ - ΝΕΩ-ΚΟ-ΡΩΝ
Design
Nude bearded Heracles advancing left, head right, drawing arrow with right hand from quiver, holding bow in outstretched left hand; in right field, two Stymphalian birds flying left and a third flying right. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
40 mm
Weight
31.80 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: 855, London 80

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 257, nr. 855.2, pl. 53, 54, pic. 855/2  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 236, nr. 62a  ❐

Bräuer, Die Heraklestatuen auf antiken Münzen 28, 1910 p. 64  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 257, nr. 855 ❐

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cn coin 4186, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4186 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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