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cn coin 10721

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CN Type 260 🔍

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 ΤΡΑΝΚ/VΛΛΙΝΑ
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-ϹΑΜΒ-ΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Turreted Tyche standing facing, head left, holding rudder in right hand and cornucopia in left arm. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
11.17 g
Axis
1
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18249809

Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke - Vorbesitzer Löbbecke

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 412, nr. 138 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 412-414, nr. 138-145, pl. 138, pic. 138-145 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 353, nr. 4213-4216 ❐

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cn coin 10721, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_10721 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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