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cn type 424

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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 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
Material
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]

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