cn type 12822
cn type 12822-0
cn type 12822-1
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cn type 12822

Mint
Dionysopolis 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse // ΑVΤ Κ [Μ] [ΑΝΤWΝΙΟᛈ] ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ ΑVΓ
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 ΔΙΟΝVᛈΟ-ΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Asclepius standing facing, head left, holding serpent-staff in right hand.
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Symbol
Ε (position: on the left)
Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm (1x)
Average Weight
12.83 g (1x)
Axes
7 (1x)
Public Commentary

3507

Citation

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 nr. 394  ❐

Tachev, Yanislav, The Coinage of Dionysopolis IV century BC - III century AD, Sofia 2020 p. 568, nr. 71-75, pl. 41  ❐

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. 1620  ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/28688 ❐

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cn type 12822, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/12822 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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