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cn coin 5888

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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 // 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 ΟVΛΠΙΑΝΩΝ ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕ//WΝ
Design
Galley, under full sail, sailing right, in waters; on board, six rowers. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
28 mm
Weight
14.42 g
Axis
1
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246405

Provenience: 1878 Rauch

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. 291, nr. 682.1  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 136, nr. 30  ❐

Rauch, Unedirte griechische Münzen 6, 1871-1873, 1871 p. 129, nr. 1, pl. 68, pic. 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. 291, nr. 682.1 ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 136, nr. 30 ❐

Rauch, Unedirte griechische Münzen 6, 1871-1873, 1871 p. 129, nr. 1, pl. 68, pic. 1 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 744-50, nr. 676-722, pl. 187-190 ❐

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. 1155 ❐

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. 1156 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/235391 ❐

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