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cn coin 5870

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CN Type 4794 🔍

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
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Legend reverse ΟVΛΠΙΑ-Ν-*WΝ* ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕ*WΝ*
Design
Winged Nike standing facing, head left, holding wreath in outstretched right hand and palm branch in lowered left arm. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
30 mm
Weight
14.90 g
Axis
7
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246377

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. 285, nr. 663.1, pl. 8, pic. 24  ❐

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. 663.1, pl. 8, pic. 24 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 686, nr. 247-254, pl. 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. 1176-1177 ❐

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