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cn coin 12717

Connected to Type

CN Type 469 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ ϹΕΒ // ΤΡΑΚVΛ/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 ΜΕϹΑΜΒ-ΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Athena standing facing, head left, wearing crested helmet and long garment, holding shield in right hand and left resting on spear. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

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

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

Owner Inventory No.: L 2115

Provenience: Fonds général 867

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 406-408, nr. 73-78 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 350, nr. 4185 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 350, nr. 4185 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 406-408, nr. 72-78 ❐

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cn coin 12717, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_12717 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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