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cn coin 7147

Connected to Type

CN Type 6704 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Had_0610_V260 🔍
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_0611_R590 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔΡΙΑΝ-ΟΠΟΛ-ΕΙΤ//*ΩΝ*
Design
Nude Apollo standing right, seen from behind, cloth over left shoulder, holding laurel-branch in lowered right hand; at left, behind him, laurel tree and at right, in front of him, bow and quiver. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
10.26 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 683

Provenience: Fonds général 683

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 611.4 Paris Gordian 547

Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 224, nr. 611.4  ❐

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 nr. 754  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 306, nr. 3710 (Bow and quiver interpreted as stump of tree.)  ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 224, nr. 611 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 306, nr. 3710 (Bow and quiver interpreted as stump of tree.)  ❐

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cn coin 7147, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7147 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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