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 advancing right, 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/types/6715 [Last downloaded: 2025/06/13]

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