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cn type 15020

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Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

241–244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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Legend obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ Α*ΝΤ* ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ Α*VΓ* ϹΑΒ ΤΡΑ*ΝΚ*VΛΛΙΝΑ
Design
Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
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Reverse
Legend
ΟVΛΠΙΑΝΩΝ ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ
Design
Nude Zeus standing facing, head left, cloak over left shoulder, holding patera in right hand, resting left hand on sceptre; at his feet, eagle.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
28 mm (1x)
Citation

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 654, nr. 6, pl. 142  ❐

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. 1194  ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1194 ❐

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cn type 15020, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/15020 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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