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cn coin 5315

Connected to Type

CN Type 6528 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Had_0440_V225 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, seen from front, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Had_0440_R427 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠ-ΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Nude bearded Heracles standing facing, head right, leaning on club with left hand, lion skin over left arm; to left, a hind standing left, head right, suckling the infant Telephos seated underneath left; the whole sourrounded by a double concentric circle with twelve sections with the twelve labours of Heracles.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 38 mm / Min: 34 mm
Axis
8
Owner

Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž (Ermitage), Sankt Petersburg, ru ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Sammlung Lischine

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 440, Li 478

Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 192, nr. 440  ❐

Literature

Pick, Thrakische Münzbilder, 1898 p. 8-12 ❐

Brabic, Adrianopol'skij medal'on Gordiana III. V, 1965 p. 112-115 ❐

Voegtli, Bilder der Heldenepen in der kaiserzeitlichen griechischen Münzprägung, Aesch 1977 p. 12-13 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 313, nr. 3797 ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 192, nr. 440 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 313, nr. 3797 ❐

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cn coin 5315, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5315 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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