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cn coin 26974

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CN Type 4785 🔍

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Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

241-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ *ΑV*Γ ϹЄΒ // ΤΡΑΝΚVΛ/ΛΕΙΝΑ
Design
Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, seen from behind, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
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Reverse
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Legend reverse ΟVΛΠΙΑ*ΝWΝ* Α-Γ-ΧΙΑΛΕW//Ν
Design
Zeus standing facing, head left, naked to waist, holding thunderbolt in lowered right hand, left resting on long sceptre.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: ANCHIA_2L_20_024

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. 281, nr. 648 ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 281, nr. 648.1 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 135 f., nr. 27 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 654-656, nr. 7-19, pl. 142-143 ❐

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. 1196 ❐

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cn coin 26974, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_26974 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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