cn type 16169

Mint

Dionysopolis 🔍

Region: Moesia inferior

Date

238–244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑΝΤWΝΙΟϹ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ // ΑVΤ Κ Μ

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

ΔΙΟΝΥϹΟΠΟΛЄΙΤΩΝ

Design

Demeter standing left, wearing long garment, holding three ears of corn in lowered right hand and resting on long torch in left arm.
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Symbol

E (position: on the right)

Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 29 mm / Min: 27 mm

Average Weight

12.63 g (5x)

Axes

1 (1x) 6 (1x) 7 (2x) 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. 1624 ❐

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 nr. 387 ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1624 ❐

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cn type 16169, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/16169 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]