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cn coin 4188

Connected to Type

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
39 mm
Weight
34.32 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1043

Provenience: Fonds général 1250

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 855, Paris 1043

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 257, nr. 855.4  ❐

Mionnet, T.1. Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, Paris 1806 p. 412, nr. 326  ❐

Literature

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

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/235645 ❐

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cn coin 4188, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4188 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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