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cn coin 12714

Connected to Type

CN Type 1637 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

241-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ ϹΑΒΙΝ // ΤΡΑΝΚΥΛΛΙ/ΝΑ
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 ΜΕϹΑΜΒ-Ρ-ΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Apollo standing facing, head left, wearing long garment, holding plectrum in outstretched right hand and lyre with left hand on a tripod to his left.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
10.67 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Provenience: Fonds général 865

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 404, nr. 47-50, pl. 134, pic. 47-50 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 350, nr. 4177-4179 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 404, nr. 47-52 ❐

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cn coin 12714, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_12714 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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