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cn coin 2889

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CN Type 14376 🔍

Mint
Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

161-176 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Anc_433-0_V 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΦΑVϹΤΕΙΝΑ - ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ
Design
Diademed and draped bust of Faustina II, right.
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Reverse
Die
Anc_433-0_R 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΓΧΙΑ-ΛΕΩΝ
Design
Dionysus standing facing, head left, long head dress with knot at back, crossing right over left leg, holding long filleted and pilleted thyrsus in right hand and resting left arm with drapery on short column. Ground line.
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Persons

Sitter: Faustina II. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
3 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26 mm / Min: 25 mm
Owner

Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein, Schlossmuseum, Münzkabinett, Gotha, de ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: 433, Gotha Anchialus Faustina M S II 218,73

Citation

Mionnet, S.T.2.Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rareté et leur estimation: ouvrage servant de catalogue à une suite de vingt mille empreintes en soufre prises sur les pièces originales, 1822 p. 218, nr. 73  ❐

Sestini, Lettere e dissertazioni numismatiche ossia descrizione di alcune medaglie rare del Museo Ducale di Gotha relativamente alla collezione di Petriccioli con la continuazione di altre medaglie del Museo Nazionale di Francia, Berlino 1806 p. 8  ❐

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. 225, nr. 433, pl. VI, pic. 14 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 396, nr. 25, pl. 13 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/169959 ❐

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cn coin 2889, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_2889 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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