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cn coin 12721

Connected to Type

CN Type 237 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

241-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ ϹΕΒ // ΤΡΑΝΚVΛΛ/ΙΝΑ
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 ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡ-ΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Homonoia standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, holding patera in outstretched right hand and cornucopia in left arm. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

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

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

Owner Inventory No.: 1992.774

Provenience: Fonds général

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 351, nr. 4198 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 408, nr. 90-93 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 408, nr. 90-93, pl. 136, pic. 90-93 ❐

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cn coin 12721, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_12721 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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