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cn coin 8108

Connected to Type

CN Type 240 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

241-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ *ΑVΓ* ϹΕΒ // ΤΡΑΝΚV/ΛΛΙΝΑ
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-ΙΑ-ΝΩΝ
Design
Homonoia standing left, holding patera and pyxis.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 27 mm / Min: 25 mm
Weight
10.61 g
Axis
7
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18249768

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer - Vorbesitzer Kosloff

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Berlin 117

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 351, nr. 4194 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 408, nr. 88 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 408, nr. 88 ❐

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. 1242 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 351, nr. 4194 ❐

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cn coin 8108, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_8108 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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