cn coin 4191
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cn coin 4191

Connected to Type

CN Type 3297 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0852_V_A 🔍
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum; gorgoneion on breastplate.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0857_R857 🔍
Legend
ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
Design
Labour of Heracles: Nude Heracles advancing right, holding club and lion skin, dragging Cerberus; in background, tree.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
40 mm
Owner

Uffizien, Florenz, it ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 857, Uff MSII 438.1397

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 257, nr. 857.2  ❐

Spanheim, Ezechielis Spanhemii Liberi Baronis, & Legati Regii Dissertationes De Præstantia Et Usu Numismatum Antiquorum, 1717 p. 265  ❐

Mionnet, S.T.2.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, 1822 p. 438, nr. 1394  ❐

Foy-Vaillant, Numismata imperatorum, augustarum et caesarum, à Populis Romanae ditionis graece loquentibus ex omni modulo percussa, Lutetiae Parisiorum 1698 p. 156  ❐

Gessner, Numismata antiqua imperatorum Romanorum, latina et graeca ..., Tiguri 1738 pl. 173, pic. 8  ❐

Gori, Mvsevm Florentinvm exhibens antiqva nvmismata maximi modvli/2, Florentiae 1740 pl. 72, pic. 3  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 257, nr. 857, pl. 54 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 71, nr. 529 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/235814 ❐

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cn coin 4191, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4191 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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