cn coin 6363
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cn coin 6363

Connected to Type

CN Type 6541 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Had_0442_V227 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ - ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ Α*VΓ*
Design
Radiate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Had_0447_R447 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse Α-ΔΡΙΑΝΟ-ΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
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
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 30 mm / Min: 28 mm
Weight
15.58 g
Owner

Nacionalen Arheologičeski Institut s Muzej, Sofia, bg ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 3146

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 447.1 Sofia Hopel Gordian

Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 193, nr. 447.1, pl. XLIII, pic. 447  ❐

Mušmov, Antičnitě Moneti na Balkanskija poluostrov i monetitě na bŭlgarskitě care, Sofija 1912 nr. 2748, pl. XIX, pic. 21  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 313, nr. 3804 ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 193, nr. 447 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 313, nr. 3804 ❐

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cn coin 6363, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6363 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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