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cn coin 4189

Connected to Type

CN Type 3296 🔍

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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_0856_R856 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ ΔΙᛈ - ΝΕΩ-ΚΟ-ΡΩΝ
Design
Heracles standing right, lion skin over left shoulder, holding club overhead in raised right hand and left hand outstretched; at right, Hippolyte, seated right, head left, on a horse to right, wearing fluttering cloak, holding double ax in right hand. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
41 mm
Weight
33.92 g
Axis
1
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18226134

Provenience: Sammlung Löbbecke

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 856, Berlin 81

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 257, nr. 856.1, pl. 54, pic. 856  ❐

Bräuer, Die Heraklestatuen auf antiken Münzen 28, 1910 p. 66, pl. 3, pic. 6  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 257, nr. 856-856a, pl. 54 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 72, nr. 530 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/235328 ❐

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cn coin 4189, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4189 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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