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cn type 6715

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
Labour of Heracles: Nude Heracles standing facing, holding club and lion skin in right hand, dragging Cerberus with left hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 28 mm / Min: 25 mm
Average Weight
9.34 g (3x)
Citation

Jurukova, Monetosečeneto na gradovete v Dolna Mizija i Trakija II - III v.: Chadrianopol, Sofija 1987 p. 230, nr. 640  ❐

Schwabacher, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum : the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen 1942 nr. 577  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 329, nr. 4010 ❐

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cn type 6715, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/6715 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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