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Object Type
Museum number: EH,p677.4.AbgGor
Description: Copper alloy coin. (whole); Bust of Gordian III, laureate, right, with drapery on left shoulder. (obverse); On left, Gordian, laureate and togate, seated right on curule chair on platform, holding sceptre in left hand; on right, Abgar standing left, wearing diademed tiara, holding Victory on extended right hand and hilt of sword in left hand. (reverse)
State
Authority: Ruler: Gordian III; Ruler: Abgar X
Cultures/periods
Production date: 242-244
Production place: Minted in: Edessa (Mesopotamia)
Materials
Dimensions: Die-axis: 11 o'clock; Diameter: 31.50 millimetres; Weight: 17.22 grammes
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Hawkins 1837 / Greek Acquisitions prior to 1837; BMC Greek (Arabia) / Catalogue of the Greek coins of Arabia, Mesopotamia and Persia (Nabataea, Arabia Provincia, S Arabia, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Assyria, Persia, Alexandrine Empire of the East, Persis, Elymais, Characene) (138, p.113) (type); SNG Copenhagen / Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Royal Collection of coins and medals, Danish National Museum (43 vols) (223) (var.)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: emperor/empress; royal/imperial
Associated names: Named in inscription & portrayed: Gordian III; Named in inscription & portrayed: Abgar X
Acquisition notes: This is the historic catalogue of Greek coins acquired before 1837 made by Edward Hawkins, then Keeper of the Department of Antiquities. It does not include the collections previously acquired from Payne Knight (1824), George III (1825), Burrell (1832), and Hine (1825), or the coins included in Taylor Combe's 1814 catalogue.
Department: Coins and Medals
Registration number: EH,p677.4.AbgGor

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