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cn coin 5317

Connected to Type

CN Type 6531 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Had_0441_V226 🔍
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_0441_R428 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔΡΙΑ-ΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Emperor (Gordian) in military attire riding right on horseback, wearing cuirass and fluttering paludamentum, holding spear in right hand towards a captive in front of him.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
41 mm
Weight
30.04 g
Owner

Nacionalen Arheologičeski Institut s Muzej, Sofia, bg ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 3260

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 441, Sofia

Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 192, nr. 441, pl. XLII, pic. 441  ❐

Mušmov, Antičnitě Moneti na Balkanskija poluostrov i monetitě na bŭlgarskitě care, Sofija 1912 nr. 2718, pl. XIX, pic. 3  ❐

Literature

Rogalski, Za dvata medal'ona na Gordian III 18, 1976 p. 54-78 ❐

Gerasimov, Prinos k"m numizmatikata na Odesos 9, 1960 p. 63-66 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 311, nr. 3782 ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 192, nr. 441 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 311, nr. 3782 ❐

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cn coin 5317, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5317 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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