cn coin 55273
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cn coin 55273

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CN Type 4792 🔍

Mint
Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

241-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ *ΑV*Γ // ᛈΕΒ ΤΡΑΝ/ΚVΛΛΙ/ΝΑ
Design
Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
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Reverse
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Legend reverse ΟVΛΠΙΑΝ*WΝ* - ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕ*WΝ*
Design
Athena standing facing, head left, wearing long garment and helmet; holding patera in outstretched right hand and inverted spear in left arm; at her feet, shield placed on ground.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
28.15 mm
Weight
15.04 g
Owner

Museum of the Institute of Archaeology within the Archaeological Park Viminacium, Belgrade, rs ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 04_79 (Field Inventory C-144)

Findspot

Viminacium, Thermae, room 2, RS [RS] ❐

Citation

Vojvoda and Redžić, Circulation of Roman coins in the Serbian part of limes (1st – 5th century), Belgrade 2018 p. 270-271, nr. 71  ❐

Vojvoda and Redžić, Roman coins discovered during archaeological investigations of thermae at Viminacium (2003–2007) 6.3, 2019 p. 95, nr. 152  ❐

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. 284, nr. 658,1 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 680-682, nr. 210-216, pl. 155-156 ❐

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. 1139 ❐

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cn coin 55273, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_55273 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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