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CN Type 21842 🔍

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Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ ϹΕΒ ΤΡΑΝΚΥΛΛΕΙΝΑ
Design
Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
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Reverse
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Legend reverse ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ
Design
Façade of a tetrastyle temple with dot on the pediment. Inside cult image of naked Apollo (?) standing facing, head right; resting right arm over the head and holding lyre over tripod with left hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26.5 mm
Weight
12.25 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Provenience: Lanz 82 (24.11.1997) 607

Literature

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 nr. 680 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 736-738, nr. 622-633, pl. 183-184 ❐

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. 1184-1185 ❐

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cn coin 55716, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_55716 [Last downloaded: 2026/09/14]

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