cn coin 7972
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cn coin 7972

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CN Type 214 🔍

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Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

241-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ ϹΕΒ ΤΡΑΝΚΥΛΛΙΝΑ
Design
Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
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Reverse
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Legend reverse ΜΕΣΑΜΒ-ΡΙΑΝΩ//Ν
Design
Zeus enthroned left, holding patera in outstretched right hand, leaning left on sceptre. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
18 mm
Owner

Universitatea din Bucureşti, Institutul de Arheologie, Bukarest, ro

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Bukarest Mesembria

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 353, nr. 4217 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 353, nr. 4217 ❐

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cn coin 7972, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_7972 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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