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cn type 15005

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Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

241–244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ // ϹΕΒ ΤΡΑΝΚ/VΛΛΙΝΑ
Design
Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
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Reverse
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Legend reverse ΟVΛΠΙΑ*ΝΩ*Ν ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕ*ΩΝ*
Design
Hades-Serapis seated left on throne, wearing kalathos, extending right hand, holding sceptre in left hand; in front, Cerberus.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
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Material
Diameter
26 mm (1x)
Average Weight
12.48 g (1x)
Citation

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 668, nr. 115-118, pl. 149 

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. 1178-1179 

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1178

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1179

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cn type 15005, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/15005 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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