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cn coin 4272

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CN Type 3406 🔍

Coinage
 
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_0916_R916 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ Δ-Ι-ᛈ Ν-ΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ // ΝΙΚΟ*ΜΗ*ΔΕ/ΩΝ / i.f.u. ΟΜ/ΟΝ/ΟΙΑ
Design
Demeter and Homonoia, clasping right hands; to left, veiled Demeter standing right, wearing corn wreath, in the left holding a large burning torch; to right, Homonoia standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, holding cornucopia in left arm. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
42 mm
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 916

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 269, nr. 916.2, pl. 57, pic. 916/2  ❐

Wroth, Catalogue of Greek coins: Pontus, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, and the Kingdom of Bosporus, Bologna 1981 p. 193, nr. 1  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 269, nr. 916, pl. 57 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 77, nr. 559 ❐

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cn coin 4272, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4272 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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