cn type 6528
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cn type 6528

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of youthful Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Nude Heracles standing facing holding lion skin and club in left arm; at his feet, a hind suckling the infant Telephos; all sourrounded by a double circle with the labours of Heracles within twelve sections.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
Diameter
Max: 38 mm / Min: 34 mm
Axes
8 (1x)
Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 192, nr. 440 

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 313, nr. 3797

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cn type 6528, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6528 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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