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cn coin 2639

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Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Anc_620-1_V 🔍
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Anc_620-1_R 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΟVΛ-ΠΙΑΝΩ-Ν ΑΓ-ΧΙ//ΑΛΕΩΝ
Design
Nude bearded Heracles advancing right, grasping with right hand the right horn of the uprising Cretan Bull, strangling it with left arm, lion skin over head. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
36.5 mm
Weight
29.82 g
Axis
7
Owner

British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, London, gb ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 620.1, London 161 (Herakl. u. Stier)

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. 273, nr. 620, pl. VIII, pic. 4  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 58, nr. 640 ❐

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. 1102 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 624, nr. 8-10, pl. 127 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 58, nr. 640 ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 273, nr. 620 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/312579 ❐

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cn coin 2639, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2639 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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