cn coin 12716

Connected to Type

CN Type 1646 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

241-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ *ΑVΓ* ϹΕΒ // ΤΡΑΝΚV/ΛΛΙΝΑ
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-ϹΑ-ΜΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Asclepius standing facing, head left, holding patera in outstretched right hand; left hand on hip; at his feet, left, serpent-staff. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Material
Weight
7.61 g
Owner

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

Owner Inventory No.: R 3846

Provenience: Fonds général; Acquise en 1964

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 406, nr. 60-67

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 406, nr. 60-71, pl. 135, pic. 60-71

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cn coin 12716, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_12716 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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