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CN Type 3409 🔍

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_0917_R917 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse *ΠΕ*ΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ ΔΙϹ *ΝΕ*ΩΚ-ΟΡΩΝ // ϹΜVΡΝΑΙΩΝ / i.f.o. ΟΜ/ΟΝ/ΟΙ/Α
Design
Demeter and Homonoia; inbetween, altar; to left, Demeter standing right, holding ears of corn in right hand and a rtorch in her left hand, at her feet, cista mystica; to right, Homonoia standing left, wearing kalathos, holding patera and cornucopia.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
37 mm
Weight
26.76 g
Owner

Ashmolean Museum, Heberden Coin Room, Oxford, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 917, OXF 27

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 269-70, nr. 917.2, pl. 57, pic. 917/2  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 269-270, nr. 917, pl. 57 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 77, nr. 560 ❐

Franke and Nollé, Die Homonoia-Münzen Kleinasiens und der thrakischen Randgebiete, Saarbrücken 1997 nr. 1724–5 ❐

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cn coin 4273, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4273 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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