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cn coin 7572

Connected to Type

CN Type 6637 🔍

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ Α-*ΝΤ* ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟΣ *ΑV*
Design
Laureate bust of youthful Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
City gate with three open doors, flanked by two crenellated towers with conical roofs.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26 mm / Min: 25 mm
Weight
9.27 g
Axis
10
Owner

Coll. B. Awianowicz, Toruń, pl

Provenience: MPO Auctions

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 nr. 3763 var. ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 309-310, 320, nr. 3757-3761, 3904 ❐

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 202, 206, 208-209, 221, 225, 226, 233, nr. 499, 522, 535, 536, 597-598, 615, 623, 656 ❐

Mairat and Spoerri Butcher, RPC VII 2: Roman provincial coinage. Vol. VII 2: From Gordian I to Gordian III (AD 238–244): all provinces except Asia. print and online, London 2022 nr. 695 (https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/695)  ❐

Mairat and Spoerri Butcher, RPC VII 2: Roman provincial coinage. Vol. VII 2: From Gordian I to Gordian III (AD 238–244): all provinces except Asia. print and online, London 2022 nr. 695 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 309-310, 320, nr. 3757-3761, 3904 ❐

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cn coin 7572, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7572 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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