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cn coin 7181

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CN Type 4827 🔍

Mint
Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

c. 241-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ Α*VΓ* ϹΕΒ // ΤΡΑΝΚVΛ/ΛΕΙΝΑ
Design
Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
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Reverse
Design
Triptolemos standing right in biga drawn by two winged serpents, wearing a cloak, holding seeds in fold of garment in left hand and raising right arm to sow the seeds; Earth reclining left on ground below the biga, with her outstretched left hand holding ears of corn.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
10.11 g
Axis
6
Owner

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Münzkabinett, Dresden, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: AAC2291

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. 283, nr. 655 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 672-674, nr. 147-151, pl. 151-152 ❐

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. 1189 ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 283, nr. 655 ❐

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cn coin 7181, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7181 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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