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cn type 215

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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/en/types/215 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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