cn type 11616
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cn type 11616

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, seen from front, wearing cuirass and paludamentum; gorgoneion on breastplate; left hand visible.
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Reverse
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ЄΠ Μ ΑVΡ ΔΙΟΝVϹΙΟV Τ Β Κ Π ΑΛЄΖΑΝΔΡΑϹ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Design
Four torches.
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Persons

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Dionysios 🔍

Magistrate: P. Alexandra 🔍

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
8 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 34.9 mm / Min: 31 mm
Average Weight
19.85 g (5x)
Axes
1 (3x)
Citation

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 48, nr. 23a  ❐

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 nr. 1799-1801  ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 179, nr. 1961-1962  ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/639 ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.536  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 11616, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/11616 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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