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cn coin 39343

Connected to Type

CN Type 4915 🔍

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Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ Α*VΓ*
Design
Radiate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΟVΛΠΙΑΝ*WΝ* - Α-ΓΧΙΑΛΕ*WΝ*
Design
Nude athlete standing facing, head right, holding palm branch and wreath.
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Symbol
E (position: on the right)
Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
27.1 mm
Weight
13.30 g
Axis
7
Owner

Private collection, ,

Provenience: JAZ Numismatics Private auction 147, (7 June 2019), lot 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. 276, nr. 632.3 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 nr. 115-118 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 648, nr. 115-118, pl. 139 ❐

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. 1115 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/353500 ❐

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cn coin 39343, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_39343 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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