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cn coin 4274

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CN Type 3411 🔍

Coinage
 
Mint
Smyrna 🔍  
Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0918_V918 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse · ΑV · ΚΑΙ Μ ⠁ ΑΝΤ· ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ⠁
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0918_R918 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse · ϹΜVΡΝ·/·ΑΙ · Π-ЄΡΙΝΘΙ / i.f.o. · ΟΜΟΝ·/ΟΙ/Α // · ЄΠ · ΜЄΝЄΚΛ·/ЄΟVϹ ·
Design
A left, turreted Amazon of Smyrna advancing right, wearing short chiton and boots, holding a double axe over left shoulder, clasping right hands with turreted city goddess of Perinthus, standing facing, head left, holding a rudder in left arm; between two prows facing each other. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 31 mm / Min: 29 mm
Weight
9.80 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: 918, London 99

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 279, nr. 918.6, pl. 57, pic. 916/6  ❐

Head, Catalogue of the Greek coins of Ionia, Bologna 1981 p. 302, nr. 487  ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Die Amazonen auf griechischen Münzen 2, 1908 p. 10  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 270, nr. 918, pl. 57 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 77, nr. 561 ❐

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cn coin 4274, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4274 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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