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cn coin 5867

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CN Type 4793 🔍

Mint
Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

241-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ Α*ΝΤ* ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ Α*VΓ* ϹΑΒ // ΤΡΑ*ΝΚ*VΛΛΙ/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
Legend
Legend reverse ΟVΛΠΙΑΝWΝ - ΑΓΧΙΑΛ-Ε*WΝ*
Design
Athena seated left, wearing a Corinthian helmet, holding patera in outstretched right hand and spear in left hand; upright shield behind.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm
Weight
12.35 g
Axis
7
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246373

Provenience: 1873 Fox

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. 285, nr. 662.2  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 136, nr. 28  ❐

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. 285, nr. 662.2 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 136, nr. 28 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 682-686, nr. 220-246, pl. 156-158 ❐

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. 1136 ❐

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. 1137 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/235370 ❐

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