cn coin 5848
cn coin 5848-0
cn coin 5848-1
Legend
Mint
Hoard
Findspot

cn coin 5848

Mint
Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Anc_635-2_V 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ - ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ *ΑVΓ*
Design
Radiated bust of Gordian III, right, wearing paludamentum.
go to the NLP result of this description
Reverse
Die
Anc_635-2_R 🔍
Legend
Legend reverse ΟVΛΠΙΑΝWΝ - Α-ΓΧ-ΙΑΛΕWΝ
Design
Emperor (Gordian) in military attire standing facing, head left, wearing cuirass, fluttering paludamentum and boots, holding patera in outstretched right hand, left resting on inverted spear. Short ground line.
go to the NLP result of this description
Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm
Weight
10.71 g
Axis
7
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246349

Provenience: 1853 Rauch

Citation

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 277, nr. 635.2  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 135, nr. 25  ❐

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. 277, nr. 635.2 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 135, nr. 25 ❐

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. 1117 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 634, nr. 36-40, pl. 132 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/235351 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 5848, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5848 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

License:

This record is licensed under: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike

Contact

Comments or information about this coin? Please email us