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cn coin 5881

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Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

241-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ ϹΑΒ // ΤΡΑΝΚVΛΛ/ΙΝΑ
Design
Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, seen from behind, wearing paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΟVΛΠΙΑΝΩΝ Α-ΓΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ
Design
Homonoia standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, holding patera in outstretched right hand and cornucopia in left arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
11.69 g
Axis
6
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246394

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. 288 f., nr. 675.3  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 136, nr. 29  ❐

Literature

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 706-712, nr. 401-444, pl. 168-171 ❐

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. 1163 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/235384 ❐

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cn coin 5881, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5881 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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