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cn type 7312

Mint
Germe 🔍  

Region: Mysia  

Date

c. 238-241 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΕΠΙ Ι ΑVΡ ΑΠΟΛΛΟΝΙΔΟV [ΑΡ]Χ ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ
Design
Labour of Heracles: Nude Heracles standing right, strangling the Nemean lion.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Magistrate: Gaius Aurelius Apollonides 🔍

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
44 mm (1x)
Average Weight
44.96 g (1x)
Axes
12 (1x)
Citation

Spoerri Butcher et al., RPC VII 1: Roman provincial coinage. Vol. VII 1: De Gordien Ier à Gordien III (238-244 après J.-C.). Province d'Asie, London : Paris 2006 nr. 100  ❐

Ehling, Die Münzprägung der mysischen Stadt Germe in der römischen Kaiserzeit, Bonn 2001 p. 147, nr. 204, annot. 241 n. Chr.  ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.1/100 ❐

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cn type 7312, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/7312 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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