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cn type 1637

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Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

241-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
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ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ ϹΑΒΙΝ ΤΡΑΝΚVΛΛΙΝΑ
Design
Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
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Reverse
Legend
ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Design
Apollo standing left, holding plectrum and lyre on a tripod.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 27.1 mm / Min: 24 mm
Average Weight
9.50 g (2x)
Axes
6 (1x)
Citation

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 404, nr. 47-52  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 350, nr. 4177-4179 ❐

editions

cn.mesembria.1_ed.221  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 1637, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/1637 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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