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cn coin 2636

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Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Anc_619-0_V 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ · Κ · Μ · ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ *ΑVΓ*
Design
Radiate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass with Gorgoneion, Aigis entwined by two serpents on left shoulder.
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Reverse
Die
Anc_619-0_R 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΟVΛΠΙΑΝWΝ - ΑΓΧΙΑΛW//Ν
Design
At left Hygieia standing facing, head right, feeding serpent held in right arm from patera in outstretched left hand; at left, ibis standing left; at right, Asclepius seen from front, head left, leaning on serpent-staff with right hand; between them Telesphorus standing facing. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
40 mm
Weight
30.50 g
Axis
12
Owner

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

Provenience: Fonds général 217

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 619, Paris, Asche & Hagg 15

Citation

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 272, nr. 619, pl. VIII, 3  ❐

Literature

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 272, nr. 619, pl. VIII, 3 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 59, nr. 651 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 622, nr. 5-6, pl. 126 ❐

Mairat and Spoerri Butcher, RPC VII 2: Roman provincial coinage. Vol. VII 2: From Gordian I to Gordian III (AD 238–244): all provinces except Asia. print and online, London 2022 nr. 1097 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/235637 ❐

Web Reference: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85546853 ❐

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cn coin 2636, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2636 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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