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cn type 6648

Mint
Hadrianopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛЄΙΤΩΝ
Design
Tyche seated left on rock, head right, holding ears of corn in right hand; behind, cornucopia; at her feet, swimming river-god.
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Type variations

1. Iconographic variation revers: head of Tyche left.

2. Iconographic variation revers: head of Tyche right.

Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26.1 mm / Min: 24.9 mm
Average Weight
9.15 g (2x)
Axes
12 (1x)
Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 205-206, nr. 516-517  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 333, nr. 4078 ❐

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cn type 6648, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6648 [Last downloaded: 2026/04/11]

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