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cn coin 6372

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CN Type 6543 🔍

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_0451_R438 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔ-ΡΙΑ-ΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
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, behind and in exergue, river-god, each holding reed.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

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

Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein, Schlossmuseum, Münzkabinett, Gotha, de ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 451.1 Gotha Gord. III Hadrianop. Sest. Lett.

Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 194, nr. 451.1, pl. XLIV, pic. 451  ❐

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. 332, nr. 798  ❐

Sestini, Lettere e dissertazioni numismatiche ossia descrizione di alcune medaglie rare del Museo Ducale di Gotha relativamente alla collezione di Petriccioli con la continuazione di altre medaglie del Museo Nazionale di Francia, Berlino 1806 p. 12, nr. I, pl. 12  ❐

Pick, Thrakische Münzbilder, 1898 p. 138-140  ❐

Literature

Bosch and Kraft, Sylloge nummorum graecorum Deutschland. Heft 4: Sammlung v. Aulock. Mysien, 1050-1438, Berlin 1957 p. 131 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 312, nr. 3785 ❐

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

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 193-194, nr. 449, 451-452 ❐

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. 3785 ❐

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cn coin 6372, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6372 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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