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cn coin 7048

Connected to Type

CN Type 6611 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Had_0500_V233 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ - ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ Α*VΓ*
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Had_0503_R489 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠ-Ο-ΛЄΙΤΩΝ
Design
Nude Hermes standing facing, head left, holding purse in right hand, caduceus and chlamys in left arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26 mm / Min: 25 mm
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 176

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: London 176

Literature

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 203, nr. 503 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 329, nr. 4013 ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 199-200, 217, 226, nr. 483-484, 580, 622, 624 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 329, nr. 4013 ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 573 ❐

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cn coin 7048, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7048 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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