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cn coin 59462

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CN Type 6637 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ Α*ΝΤ* - ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ *ΑVΓ*
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
City gate with one door, flanked by two towers.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 27.1 mm / Min: 26 mm
Weight
10.74 g
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 2022.14.76

Provenience: SHH 2020

Literature

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 202, 206, 208-209, 221, 225, 226, 233, nr. 499, 522, 535, 536, 597-598, 615, 623, 656 ❐

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. 695 (https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/695)  ❐

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. 695 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 309-310, 320, nr. 3757-3761, 3904 ❐

Web Reference: http://www.hourmo.eu/24_Thrace/Hadrianopolis/2020_Hadrianopolis_Gordian_III_AE.html ❐

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cn coin 59462, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_59462 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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