cn coin 7426
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cn coin 7426

Connected to Type

CN Type 6717 🔍

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_0641_R615 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟ-Λ-ЄΙΤ-*ΩΝ*
Design
Nude Heracles advancing right, Hydra coiling around his left leg, grasping Hydra with left hand, about to strike with club in right hand over it's head.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 27 mm / Min: 26 mm
Weight
8.70 g
Owner

Nacionalen Arheologičeski Institut s Muzej, Sofia, bg ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Owner Inventory No.: 5653

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Sofia Hopel Gordian

Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 230, nr. 641.1, pl. LX, pic. 641  ❐

Gerassimov, Unedierte Münzen von Hadrianopolis in Thrakien 6, 1933 nr. 120  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 313, nr. 3800 ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 230, nr. 641 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 313, nr. 3800 ❐

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cn coin 7426, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7426 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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