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cn type 16085

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Odessos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

238–244 AD

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ *ΑVΓ*
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, wearing a cuirass and paludamentum, and draped bust of Theos Megas, wearing a kalathos and accompanied by a cornucopia, facing each other.
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Reverse
Legend
ΟΔΗϹϹΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Hygieia standing right, feeding serpent from patera.
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Symbol
Ε (position: at the bottom left)
Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
28 mm (1x)
Average Weight
10.41 g (1x)
Axes
12 (1x)
Citation

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. 1538  ❐

Pick and Regling, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. 2. Halbbd., Abt. 1: Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. Die Münzen von Odessos und Tomis ; mit einer Ergänzungstafel, Berlin 1910 nr. 2349-50  ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1538 ❐

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cn type 16085, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/16085 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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