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cn coin 56423

Connected to Type

CN Type 6635 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛ(Ε)ΙΤΩΝ
Design
Tyche standing left, wearing kalathos, holding rudder and cornucopia.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
25.3 mm
Weight
10.08 g
Axis
6
Owner

Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern, ch ❐

Owner Inventory No.: N/82.275

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. 275  ❐

Mairat and Spoerri Butcher, RPC VII 2: Roman provincial coinage. Vol. VII 2: From Gordian I to Gordian III (AD 238–244): all provinces except Asia. print and online, London 2022 nr. 753/12  ❐

Literature

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 203, 204, 213, 216, 219, 227-228, 233, 234, nr. 495, 509-510, 554, 571, 588, 628-629, 653-654, 658 ❐

Mairat and Spoerri Butcher, RPC VII 2: Roman provincial coinage. Vol. VII 2: From Gordian I to Gordian III (AD 238–244): all provinces except Asia. print and online, London 2022 nr. 752-753 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 318, 325, 333, nr. 3865-3869, 3964-3965, 4079 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/316441 ❐

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cn coin 56423, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_56423 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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