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cn coin 10714

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CN Type 424 🔍

Mint
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 // ΤΡΑΝΚVΛ/ΛΙΝΑ
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
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm
Weight
12.56 g
Axis
8
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18249763

Provenience: 1887/171 - Vorbesitzer Giel

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 10714, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10714 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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