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cn coin 56523

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CN Type 22456 🔍

Mint
Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

241-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ // ϹΕΒ ΤΡΑΝΚ/VΛΛΙΝΑ
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 ΟVΛΠΙΑ*ΝWΝ* ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕWΝ
Design
Hera standing left, holding patera and sceptre.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
27.9 mm
Weight
13.79 g
Axis
1
Owner

Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern, ch ❐

Owner Inventory No.: N/82.253

Provenience: Righetti

Citation

Kapossy and Righetti, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Schweiz. 2: Münzen der Antike: Katalog der Sammlung Jean-Pierre Righetti im Bernischen Historischen Museum, Bern 1993 nr. 253  ❐

Literature

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 664-666, nr. 80-91, pl. 147-148 ❐

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. 1158 ❐

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cn coin 56523, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_56523 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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