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cn type 5237

Mint
Byzantion 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 235 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ЄΠ Μ ΑVΡ ΔΙΟΝVϹΙΟV Τ Β Κ Π ΑΛЄΖΑΝΔΡΑϹ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ ΤΟ Β
Design
Nike standing left, holding laurel wreath and palm branch.
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Persons

Magistrate: Marcus Aurelius Dionysios 🔍

Magistrate: P. Alexandra 🔍

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
6 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
31 mm (1x)
Average Weight
15.59 g (1x)
Axes
9 (1x)
Citation

Schönert-Geiß, Die Münzprägung von Byzantion. Kaiserzeit, Berlin 1972 p. 117, nr. 1804  ❐

Pick, Die Personen- und Götternamen auf Kaisermünzen von Byzantion 27, 1895 p. 48, nr. 23a  ❐

Kenner, Die Münzsammlung des Stiftes St. Florian in Ober-Oesterreich, Wien 1871 p. 24, pl. 1, pic. 14  ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 180, nr. 1967  ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/642 ❐

editions

cn.byzantium.1_ed.532  🔍

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cn type 5237, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5237 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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