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cn coin 9283

Connected to Type

CN Type 424 🔍

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
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 ΜΕ-ϹΑΜΒ-ΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Demeter standing facing, head left, holding ears of corn in right hand, left resting on long torch.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
11.60 g
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 132, 1. Februar 2006, Lot-Nr. 106.

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 351, nr. 4188 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 408, nr. 79-85 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 408, nr. 79-85 ❐

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. 1234 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 351, nr. 4188-4189 ❐

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cn coin 9283, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9283 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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