Tomis, Gordian III., bronze (CN type 22534)
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Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
Moesia inferiorCoin type in bronze struck at Tomis in Moesia inferior under Gordian III., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 22534. Obverse: Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Nude Triptolemos standing in biga, right, drawn by two winged serpents, wearing fluttering chlamys, holding seeds in chlamys with left hand, sowing with right hand.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded diameter
- 25.2 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 10.79 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Tomis
- Region
- Moesia inferior
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Gordian III.
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Nude Triptolemos standing in biga, right, drawn by two winged serpents, wearing fluttering chlamys, holding seeds in chlamys with left hand, sowing with right hand.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ - Γ-Ο-ΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
- Reverse legend
- ΜΗΤΡΟ ΠΟΝΤΟV ΤΟΜЄΩϹ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/22534
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 22534
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Research required
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
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