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cn coin 8105

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CN Type 238 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

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 ΜΕϹΑΜ-ΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Two dancing Korybanti holding swords in right and shields in left hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26 mm / Min: 25 mm
Owner

Sammlung Leake, Cambridge, gb

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Leake Gord. und Tranq.

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 350, nr. 4187 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 412, nr. 118-126, pl. 138, pic. 118-126 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 412, nr. 118-126, pl. 138, pic. 118-126 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 350, nr. 4187 ❐

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cn coin 8105, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8105 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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