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cn coin 42722

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CN Type 22488 🔍

Mint
Nikopolis ad Istrum 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

238–244 AD

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
VΠ ϹΑΒ ΜΟΔЄϹΤΟV ΝΙΚΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΠΡΟϹ ΙϹΤΡΟΝ
Design
Façade of tetrastyle temple, shield on pediment and acroteria on roof; within Hades-Serapis enthroned left, extending right hand over Cerberus, right, holding a long sceptre in left hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Legatus Augusti pro praetore: Sabinius Modestus 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
11.73 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18278047

Provenience: Imhoof-Blumer 1900

Literature

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 nr. 2085 ❐

Mairat and Spoerri Butcher, RPC VII 2: Roman provincial coinage. Vol. VII 2: From Gordian I to Gordian III (AD 238–244): all provinces except Asia. print and online, London 2022 nr. 1309 ❐

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cn coin 42722, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_42722 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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