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cn coin 39124

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CN Type 4785 🔍

Mint
Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

241-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ ϹΑΒΕΙΝ // ΤΡΑΝΚVΛΛΙ/ΝΑ
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
Legend
Legend reverse ΟVΛΠΙΑΝ*ΩΝ* - ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕ*ΩΝ*
Design
Zeus standing facing, head left, naked to waist, holding thunderbolt in lowered right hand, left resting on long sceptre. Ground line.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
25.7 mm
Weight
11.80 g
Axis
7
Owner

BBAW, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 2022.11.116

Provenience: SHH 4227; Busso Peus 403 (27.04.2011) 377

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. 648.1 ❐

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

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 ❐

Web Reference: http://www.hourmo.eu/24_Thrace/Anchialos/4227_Anchialus_Gordianus_III_Tranquillina_AE.html ❐

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