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cn coin 5931

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CN Type 3406 🔍

Coinage
Mint
Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Per_0852_V_A 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse · ΑVΤ · Κ · Μ ⠁ ΑΝΤ . ΓΟ-ΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ ⠁ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass, seen from front, slight drapery over left shoulder; gorgoneion on breastplate.
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Reverse
Die
Per_0916_R916 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ Δ-Ι-ᛈ Ν-ΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ // ΝΙΚΟ*ΜΗ*ΔΕ/ΩΝ / i.f.u. ΟΜ/ΟΝ/ΟΙΑ
Design
Demeter and Homonoia, clasping right hands; to left, veiled Demeter standing right, wearing corn wreath, in the left holding a large burning torch; to right, Homonoia standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, holding cornucopia in left arm. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
Diameter
40.7 mm
Weight
37.76 g
Axis
1
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at

Owner Inventory No.: GR 33828

Provenience: 1908, Sammlung Weber

Literature

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 269, nr. 916, pl. 57

Schönert, Die Münzprägung von Perinthos, Berlin 1965 p. 269, nr. 916, pl. 57

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 77, nr. 559

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cn coin 5931, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5931 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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