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cn coin 56991

Connected to Type

CN Type 6574 🔍

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
ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Serapis standing left, wearing kalathos, raising right arm, holding sceptre in left hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 27.5 mm / Min: 26.5 mm
Weight
9.73 g
Axis
7
Owner

Coll. B. Awianowicz, Toruń, pl

Provenience: Jean Elsen, auction 141 (15.06.2019), lot 328

Literature

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 196, 199, 203, 209, 214, 217, 219, 222, 225, nr. 465, 480-81, 502, 537, 561-563, 579, 587, 601, 618 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 316, nr. 3839, 3842 ❐

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cn coin 56991, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_56991 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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