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cn coin 56043

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CN Type 18380 🔍

Mint
Germe 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

238–244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑV Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ
Design
Radiate bust of Gordian III, left, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, holding spear and shield; gorgoneion on shield.
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Reverse
Legend
ΓЄΡΜΗΝΩΝ
Design
two Nymphs(?) standing, facing, heads turned towards each other, each emptying oenochoe in amphora, between on ground.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26.5 mm
Weight
9.21 g
Axis
6
Owner

Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern, ch ❐

Owner Inventory No.: N/82.717

Provenience: Righetti

Citation

Kapossy and Righetti, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Schweiz. 2: Münzen der Antike: Katalog der Sammlung Jean-Pierre Righetti im Bernischen Historischen Museum, Bern 1993 nr. 717  ❐

Literature

RPC VIII: Roman provincial coinage. Vol. VIII: Philip (AD 244–249). Online nr. 142.2 ❐

Ehling, Die Münzprägung der mysischen Stadt Germe in der römischen Kaiserzeit, Bonn 2001 nr. 252 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/90292 ❐

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cn coin 56043, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_56043 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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