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cn type 6543

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Radiate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Orestes, Iphigenia and Pylades (or Orpheus, Euridice and Hermes): to left, Orestes, holding patera; in the middle, Iphigenia, holding statue of Artemis (Tauropolos); to left, Pylades; in front, behind and in exergue, river-god, each holding reed.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm (3x)
Average Weight
13.67 g (3x)
Axes
8 (1x)
Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 193-194, nr. 449, 451-452  ❐

Nollé, Zu den Gründungstraditionen des thrakischen Hadrianopolis 39, 2009 p. 131  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 312, nr. 3785 ❐

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cn type 6543, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6543 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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