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cn coin 4355

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CN Type 4761 🔍

Mint
Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Anc_630-3_V 🔍
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ ΑVΓ
Design
Radiated bust of Gordian III, right, wearing paludamentum.
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Reverse
Die
Anc_630-3_R 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΟVΛΠΙΑΝW-Ν - ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕ*WΝ*
Design
Nude athlete standing facing, head right, crowning himself with right hand, holding palm branch in left arm. In left field, E. Short ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 27 mm / Min: 26 mm
Owner

Nacionalen Arheologičeski Institut s Muzej, Sofia, bg ❐

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Sofia 5724

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. 630-3, pl. VIII, pic. 11 ❐

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. 630-1, pl. VIII, pic. 11 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 60, nr. 655 ❐

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. 1114 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 644, nr. 95-101, pl. 137 ❐

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cn coin 4355, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_4355 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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