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cn coin 5856

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CN Type 4783 🔍

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Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ Α*ΝΤ* - ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ *ΑVΓ*
Design
Laureate head of Gordian III, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΓ-ΧΙΑ-ΛΕ//ΩΝ
Design
Dolphin swimming left; between two tunnies, upper swimming to left, lower swimming to right.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
8.14 g
Axis
10
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246357

Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke

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. 280, nr. 645.1  ❐

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. 280, nr. 645.1 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 56, nr. 611 ❐

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. 1200 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 648-650, nr. 124-127a, pl. 139-140 ❐

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