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cn coin 26838

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Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

241-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΑVΤ Κ Μ Α*ΝΤ* ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ Α*VΓ* ϹΑΒ ΤΡΑ*ΝΚ*VΛΛΙΝΑ
Design
Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
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Reverse
Legend
ΟVΛΠΙΑΝΩΝ ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ
Design
Nude Hermes standing left, wearing petasus, holding purse and caduceus.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Owner

Nacionalen Istoričeski Muzej, Sofia, bg ❐

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ANCHIA_2L_20_063

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. 285, nr. 664.3  ❐

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. 285 f., nr. 664.1, pl. 8, pic. 25 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 676-678, nr. 172-183, pl. 153-154 ❐

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. 1160 ❐

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