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cn coin 6256

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
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
28 mm
Weight
10.77 g
Axis
6
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Classical Numismatic Group 76, 12.09.2007, 995 = Peus Auction 366, lot 406, 29.10.2000, ex Sammlung Marcel Burstein, Nevada

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 6256, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6256 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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