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cn coin 4193

Connected to Type

CN Type 3298 🔍

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_0858_R858 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ Δ-Ιᛈ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
Design
Nude Heracles standing facing, head right, holding club in right hand and lion skin over his left arm; at right, serpent (Ladon) coiling around apple tree of the Hesperides.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
40 mm
Weight
32.90 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: 858, London 49

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 258, nr. 858.1, pl. 54, pic. 858/1  ❐

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 158, nr. 62  ❐

Bräuer, Die Heraklestatuen auf antiken Münzen 28, 1910 p. 93  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 257-258, nr. 858, pl. 54 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 71, nr. 528 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/235553 ❐

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cn coin 4193, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4193 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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