cn type 215

Edition

An edition has been created for this type.🔍

Mint

Mesembria 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

238-244 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ Ν

Design

Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse

Legend

ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ

Design

Serapis standing left, raising right arm, holding sceptre in left hand.
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Type variations

1. Iconographic variation revers: sceptre accross the body.

2. Iconographic variation revers: sceptre beside the body.

Persons

Sitter

Gordian III. 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

4 unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 26 mm / Min: 23 mm

Average Weight

9.96 g (1x)

Citation

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 404, nr. 34, pl. 134, pic. 34  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 349, nr. 4174  ❐

editions

cn.mesembria.1_ed.220 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 215, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/215 [Last downloaded: 2024/12/12]

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