cn coin 7424
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cn coin 7424

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CN Type 6715 🔍

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_0640_R614 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟ-ΠΟΛЄΙΤΩΝ
Design
Nude bearded Heracles standing facing, head right, lion skin over shoulder, holding club with right hand over shoulder; drawing out Cerberus on a leash.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Material
Diameter
28 mm
Weight
8.63 g
Owner

Nationalmuseet, Kongelige Mønt- og Medaillesamling, Kopenhagen, dk

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 577

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de]

Plaster Cast No: Cph M S II 329. 781

Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 230, nr. 640.9 

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Kopenhagen 6/2, Kopenhagen nr. 577 

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 329, nr. 4010

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 230, nr. 640

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 329, nr. 4010

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 577

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cn coin 7424, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7424 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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