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cn coin 4807

Connected to Type

CN Type 3297 🔍

Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0852_V_A 🔍
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum; gorgoneion on breastplate.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0857_R857 🔍
Legend
ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
Design
Labour of Heracles: Nude Heracles advancing right, holding club and lion skin, dragging Cerberus; in background, tree.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
41 mm
Weight
34.30 g
Axis
1
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18239712

Provenience: 1859/19802

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 217, nr. 52  ❐

Bräuer, Die Heraklestatuen auf antiken Münzen 28, 1910 p. 83, pl. 4, pic. 8  ❐

Schönert, Zur Geschichte der Stadt Perinthos 8, 1962 p. 79  ❐

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 257, nr. 857.1, pl. 54, pic. 857  ❐

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 257, nr. 857, pl. 54 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 71, nr. 529 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/235331 ❐

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