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cn coin 51609

Connected to Type

CN Type 260 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

241-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ ϹΕΒ ΤΡΑΝΚΥΛΛΙΝΑ
Design
Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
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Reverse
Legend
ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Turreted Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopia.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Weight
12.67 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger eA 366 (29.10.2000) lot 410, ex Sammlung Marcel Burstein, Nevada

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 412-414, nr. 138-145, pl. 138, pic. 138-145 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 353, nr. 4213-4216 ❐

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cn coin 51609, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_51609 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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