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cn coin 7973

Connected to Type

CN Type 215 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ Ν
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΕϹΑΜ-ΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Serapis standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, raising right arm, holding drapery and long sceptre in left hand; holding sceptre diagonally in front of his body.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 24 mm / Min: 23 mm
Weight
9.96 g
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: BM London 76

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 349, nr. 4174 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 404, nr. 34, pl. 104, pic. 34 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 349, nr. 4174 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 404, nr. 34, pl. 134, pic. 34 ❐

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cn coin 7973, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7973 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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