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Object Type
Museum number: 1958,0304.113
Description: Copper Alloy coin. (whole); Bust of Gordian, draped and laureate, right; clad in cuirass and paludamentum; dotted border. (obverse); Personification of Moesia, facing, head to left; clad in long chiton; extending her two hands over a bull to her left, standing right, and a lion to her right, standing left; border of dots. (reverse)
State
Authority
Regnal date: 1
Cultures/periods
Production date: 238-244
Production place: Minted in: Viminacium (historic city - Moesia)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Die-axis: 1 o'clock; Diameter: 31 millimetres (maximum); Weight: 15.580 grammes
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: SNG Copenhagen / Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Royal Collection of coins and medals, Danish National Museum (43 vols) (136-138) (type); SNG Hungary II / Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Hungary: Budapest Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum: Volume II Dacia-Moesia Superior (117-143) (type); SNG Slovenia III.1 / Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Slovenia: Ljubljana Narodni Muzej: Volume III Moesia Superior Collection Kecskes; Part 1 Viminacium (3-64) (type); Pick 1898 / Die Antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien: Band I: Viminacium - Nicopolis (71-73) (type)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: emperor/empress; allegory/personification
Associated names: Named in inscription & portrayed: Gordian III; Representation of: Moesia
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1958
Department: Coins and Medals
Registration number: 1958,0304.113

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