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cn coin 56450

Connected to Type

CN Type 6537 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Radiate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Athena advancing right, head left, holding spear with shield in left hand; in front, coiling serpent.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
31.2 mm
Weight
16.32 g
Owner

Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern, ch ❐

Owner Inventory No.: N/82.273

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. 273  ❐

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. 655/2  ❐

Literature

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 193, nr. 444 ❐

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. 655 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 308, nr. 3737 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/316442 ❐

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