cn type 424

Mint

Mesembria 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

241-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

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

ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ

Design

Demeter standing left, holding ears of corn and torch.
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Type variations

1. Iconographic variation revers: torch entwined by serpent.

Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

4 unit 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 27.2 mm / Min: 26 mm

Average Weight

12.42 g (5x)

Axes

7 (2x) 8 (1x) 12 (1x)

Citation

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 ❐

Literature

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

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1234 ❐

editions

cn.mesembria.1_ed.229 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 424, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/424 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]