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cn coin 10713

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CN Type 424 🔍

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Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ ϹΕΒ // ΤΡΑΝΚVΛΛ/ΙΝΑ
Design
Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΕ-ϹΑΜΒΡ-Ι-ΑΝΩΝ
Design
Demeter standing facing, head left, holding ears of corn in outstretched right hand and resting her left hand on long torch entwined by serpent.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Material
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
10.02 g
Axis
7
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de

Owner Inventory No.: 18249762

Provenience: 1873 Fox - Vorbesitzer Whittal

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 408, nr. 79-85

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 408, nr. 79-85

Mairat and Spoerri Butcher, RPC VII 2: Roman provincial coinage. Vol. VII 2: From Gordian I to Gordian III (AD 238–244): all provinces except Asia. print and online, London 2022 nr. 1234

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 351, nr. 4188-4189

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cn coin 10713, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10713 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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