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cn coin 8098

Connected to Type

CN Type 235 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ ϹΕΒ // ΤΡΑΝΚΥΛΛΙΝΑ
Design
Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡ-ΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Apollo standing facing, head left, wearing long garment, holding plectrum in outstretched right hand and lyre with left hand on a short column.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26 mm / Min: 25 mm
Weight
10.68 g
Axis
1
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18249758

Provenience: 1906 Löbbecke - Vorbesitzer Löbbecke

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Löbb Gordian + Tranquill

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 350, nr. 4175 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 404, nr. 45/46, pl. 134, pic. 45/46 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 350, nr. 4175-4176 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 404, nr. 35-46, pl. 134, pic. 35-46 ❐

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cn coin 8098, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8098 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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