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cn coin 2640

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Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Anc_621-1_V 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse 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_621-1_R 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse Ο-V-Λ-ΠΙΑΝΩΝ ΑΓΧΙ//ΑΛΕΩΝ
Design
Nude bearded Heracles standing left, wearing lion skin, pushing with right knee the lowered hind quarters of the lying Cerynean hind, holding animal by antlers in both hands; in front of his left foot, club lying to right. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Medallion 🔍
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
34 mm
Owner

Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Cabinet des Médailles, Brüssel, be ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 621.1, Brüssel Hirsch (Herakles Hind)

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. 621, pl. VIII, 3, pic. 5  ❐

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. 273, nr. 621, pl. VIII, 3, pic. 5 ❐

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. 1101 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 628-630, nr. 20-25 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/235849 ❐

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cn coin 2640, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2640 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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