cn coin 6255

Connected to Type

CN Type 6719 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Had_0638_V270 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ Α*VΓ*
Design
Laureate bust of youthful Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Had_0642_R616 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔΡ-ΙΑΝ-Ο-ΠΟ-ΛΕΙΤ//*ΩΝ*
Design
Nude Heracles advancing right, lion skin over left arm, grasping with right hand the horns of the uprising Cretan Bull, strangling it with left arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Material
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
9.24 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Classical Numismatic Group, Triton V, 15.01.2002, 1696

Literature

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 230, nr. 642, pl. LX, pic. 642

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 313, nr. 3803

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 230-231, nr. 642

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 313, nr. 3803

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cn coin 6255, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6255 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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