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cn coin 59037

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CN Type 16168 🔍

Mint
Dionysopolis 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

238–244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑΝΤWΝΙΟᛈ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ *ΑVΓ* // ΑVΤ Κ Μ
Design
Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, draped and cuirassed, right, and of Serapis, draped and wearing kalathos, left.
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Reverse
Legend
ΔΙΟΝVϹΟΠΟΛЄΙΤΩΝ
Design
Serpent coiling right, bent four times.
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Symbol
E (position: top left)
Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 27 mm / Min: 24.7 mm
Weight
9.68 g
Axis
6
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 2022.15.45

Provenience: SHH 2585

Literature

Tachev, Yanislav, The Coinage of Dionysopolis IV century BC - III century AD, Sofia 2020 p. 586-588, nr. 202-221, pl. 50-51 ❐

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. 1637 ❐

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 p. 137, nr. 402-(403) ❐

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cn coin 59037, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_59037 [Last downloaded: 2026/10/11]

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