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cn coin 4192

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
36 mm
Weight
25.27 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1049

Provenience: Fonds général 1256

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 857, Paris 1049

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 257, nr. 857.3  ❐

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/235646 ❐

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cn coin 4192, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4192 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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