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cn coin 7420

Connected to Type

CN Type 6688 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Had_0638_V270 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ Α*VΓ*
Design
Laureate bust of youthful Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Had_0639_R613 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟ-ΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Athena advancing right, head left, wearing long garment, cloak and Corinthian helmet, holding spear with shield in left arm; in front a serpent coiling right. Short ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
9.39 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: 680

Provenience: Fonds général 680

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 639.11 Paris 546 Gord. III.

Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 230, nr. 639.12  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 308, 320, 327, nr. 3736, 3738, 3900, 3992 ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 214, 223, 229-230, nr. 560, 608, 639 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 308, 320, 327, nr. 3736, 3738, 3900, 3992 ❐

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cn coin 7420, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7420 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/22]

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