cn coin 7059
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cn coin 7059

Connected to Type

CN Type 6672 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Had_0513_V236 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝ-Τ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ Α*VΓ*
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Had_0520_R506 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔΡ-ΙΑΝΟ-ΠΟΛ-//ΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
City gate with three open doors, flanked by two crenellated towers with conical roofs.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 376

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Paris 376

Public Commentary

Möglicherweise gibt es eine Variante mit Artemis-Darstellung auf dem Relief. Cf. Jurukova Nr. 520.

Literature

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 206, nr. 520 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 309-310, 320, nr. 3755-3761, 3904 ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 206, nr. 520-521 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 309, nr. 3755-3756 ❐

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cn coin 7059, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7059 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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