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cn coin 5866

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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, seen from behind, 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
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
12.71 g
Axis
6
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246371

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. 284, nr. 658,1  ❐

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. 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 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/235369 ❐

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cn coin 5866, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5866 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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