cn coin 6371
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cn coin 6371

Connected to Type

CN Type 6547 🔍

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_0450_R437 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse Α-ΔΡΙ-ΑΝΟΠ-Ο-ΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Orestes, Iphigenia and Pylades (or Orpheus, Euridice and Hermes): to left, Orestes, holding patera; in the middle, Iphigenia, holding statue of Artemis (Tauropolos); to left, Pylades; in front one and in exergue two river-gods, each holding reed.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 28543

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 450.1 Wien Hadrianop. Gord. III.

Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 194, nr. 450.1, pl. XLIV, pic. 450  ❐

Literature

Nollé, Zu den Gründungstraditionen des thrakischen Hadrianopolis 39, 2009 p. 131 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 312, nr. 3786 ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 194, nr. 450 ❐

Nollé, Zu den Gründungstraditionen des thrakischen Hadrianopolis 39, 2009 p. 131 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 312, nr. 3786 ❐

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cn coin 6371, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6371 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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