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cn coin 5887

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Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

241-244 AD

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Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ *ΑVΓ* ᛈΕΒ // ΤΡΑΝΚVΛ/ΛΙΝΑ
Design
Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
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Reverse
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Legend reverse ΟVΛΠΙΑ-Ν*WΝ* ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕ//WΝ
Design
City gate, flanked by two towers with conical roofs; above, gallery of three arches.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
10.99 g
Axis
7
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246403

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. 290, nr. 681.2  ❐

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. 290, nr. 681, pl. 8, pic. 27 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 738-742, nr. 642-661, pl. 184-186 ❐

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. 1145 ❐

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. 1146 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/235390 ❐

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cn coin 5887, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5887 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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