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cn coin 2642

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Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Anc_622y_Vy 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ · Κ · Μ · ΑΝΤ *ΑVΓ* - ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, left, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, holding spear in right hand and shield decorated with eagle on left arm. Border of dots.
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Reverse
Die
Anc_622y_Ry 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse Ο-V-Λ-ΠΙΑΝΩ-Ν ΑΓ-ΧΙ//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
35 mm
Owner

Unknown, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 622, 154

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. 622 ❐

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. 622 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 57, nr. 638 ❐

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. 1100 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 624-628, nr. 11-19, pl. 127-129 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/236029 ❐

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cn coin 2642, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2642 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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