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cn type 16188

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Dionysopolis 🔍  

Region: Moesia inferior  

Date

238–244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ Α*VΓ*
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΔΙΟΝΥϹΟΠΟΛЄΙΤΩΝ
Design
Great God standing facing, wearing kalathos and long garment, holding patera in outstretched right hand over lighted altar and cornucopia in left arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm (1x)
Average Weight
8.12 g (1x)
Axes
7 (1x)
Citation

Tachev, Yanislav, The Coinage of Dionysopolis IV century BC - III century AD, Sofia 2020 p. 554, nr. 4-10, pl. 34  ❐

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. 1644  ❐

Pick, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. 1. Halbbd. I 1, Berlin 1898 p. 135, nr. 384  ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1644 ❐

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cn type 16188, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/16188 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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