cn coin 6365
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cn coin 6365

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: 29 mm / Min: 27 mm
Owner

Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino, Turin, it ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Bibl. Turin Gordian MS II. 330, 785/6

Literature

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

Mionnet, S.T.2.Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, 1822 p. 330, nr. 785/6 ❐

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 6365, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6365 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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