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cn coin 7116

Connected to Type

CN Type 6574 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Had_0576_V250 🔍
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_0579_R562 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔΡΙΑΝ-Ο-ΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Serapis standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, raising right arm, holding drapery and long sceptre in left hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Material
Diameter
Max: 27 mm / Min: 26 mm
Weight
10.54 g
Axis
7
Owner

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

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 16/1922

Provenience: coll. G. B. Pears

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: BM London 74 1922-11-16-18

Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 217, nr. 579.4 

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 316, nr. 3839, 3842

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 196, 199, 203, 209, 214, 217, 219, 222, 225, nr. 465, 480-81, 502, 537, 561-563, 579, 587, 601, 618

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 316, nr. 3839, 3842

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cn coin 7116, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7116 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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