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cn coin 9289

Connected to Type

CN Type 1647 🔍

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 // ΤΡΑΝΚVΛ/ΛΙΝΑ
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 ΜΕϹ-ΑΜΒ-ΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Dionysus standing facing, head left, wearing short chiton and boots, holding kantharos in right hand and thyrsus in left arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
25 mm
Weight
10.51 g
Axis
1
Owner

commerce / im Handel, ,

Please note that the current ownership is not confirmed.

Provenience: Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 370, 9. März 2016, Lot-Nr. 268.

Literature

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 408, nr. 89 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 408, nr. 89 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 9289, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9289 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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