RPC VII.2, 650

Province Thrace
City Hadrianopolis 
Region Thrace
Reign Gordian III
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian III, right, seen from front
Reverse inscription ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Reverse design Heracles standing right, right arm behind his back, holding lion skin and club sitting on rock; at feet, hind suckling infant Telephus; all surrounded by the labours of Heracles in twelve sections

Coin no. 1 of RPC VII.2, 650

 

Museum Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (Russia)
Inventory no.
Reference Jurukova, Hadrianopolis 440/1 = A. Rogalski, 'Sur deux médaillons de Gordian III frappés à Hadrianopolis', Archeologija 18/1 (1976), p. 56, fig. 5 = V. M. Brabič, 'Adrianopolskij medal’on Gordiana III', Numizmatika i Epigrafika 5 (1965), pp. 112–15
Diameter 38
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