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cn coin 6259

Connected to Type

CN Type 4170 🔍

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Perinthos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum; gorgoneion on breastplate.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΠΕΡΙΝ-ΘΙΩΝ ΔΙᛈ ΝΕ-ΩΚΟΡ-ΩΝ
Design
Nude bearded Heracles advancing right, grasping with right hand the right horn of the uprising Cretan Bull, strangling it with left arm, lion skin over head. Border of dots.
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Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
42 mm
Weight
35.85 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: CNG Triton V, 15.01.2002, 1701

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 72, nr. 533 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 72, nr. 533 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/236054 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 6259, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6259 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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