cn type 12821
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cn type 12821

Mint
Dionysopolis 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Μ ΑΝΤW ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ ΑVΓ // ΑVΤ Κ
Design
Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, draped and cuirassed, right, and of Serapis, draped and wearing kalathos, left.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΔΙΟΝVᛈΟΠ-ΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Homonoia standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, holding patera in outstretched right hand and cornucopia in left arm.
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Symbol
Ε (position: on the left)
Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 28 mm / Min: 26.6 mm
Average Weight
12.26 g (2x)
Axes
1 (1x) 12 (1x)
Public Commentary

3509

Citation

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 nr. 400  ❐

Tachev, Yanislav, The Coinage of Dionysopolis IV century BC - III century AD, Sofia 2020 p. 580-582, nr. 147-163, pl. 47-48  ❐

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cn type 12821, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12821 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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