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cn coin 4276

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CN Type 3411 🔍

Coinage
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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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Countermark
Bull\'s head to l.; oval.
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
Material
Diameter
30 mm
Weight
9.18 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 201

Citation

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 270, nr. 918.7 

Head, Catalogue of the Greek coins of Ionia, Bologna 1981 p. 302, nr. 488 

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 4276, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4276 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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