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Odessos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

238–244 AD

Obverse
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ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ *ΑVΓ* ϹЄ ΤΡΑΝΚVΛΛЄΙΝΑ
Design
Laureate bust of Gordian III, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and draped bust of Tranquillina, wearing diadem; facing each other.
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Reverse
Legend
ΟΔΗϹϹΕΙΤΩΝ
Design
Athena (Nikephoros) enthroned, facing left, holding Nike with wreath and palm branch in her outstretched right hand, and resting her left on spear; shield at the back of the throne.
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Symbol
Ε (position: on the right)
Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 27.7 mm / Min: 25 mm
Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Kn

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values I, 2005 p. 368, nr. 4567, pic. 4567 ❐

Pick and Regling, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. 2. Halbbd., Abt. 1: Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. Die Münzen von Odessos und Tomis ; mit einer Ergänzungstafel, Berlin 1910 p. 583, nr. 2387 ❐

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. 1587 ❐

Pick and Regling, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 1. 2. Halbbd., Abt. 1: Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien. Die Münzen von Odessos und Tomis ; mit einer Ergänzungstafel, Berlin 1910 nr. 2387 ❐

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cn coin 28969, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_28969 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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