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cn type 469

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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
Athena standing left, holding shield set down at her feet, and spear.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍  

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 26 mm / Min: 25.7 mm
Average Weight
11.39 g (4x)
Axes
6 (2x) 7 (1x)
Citation

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 406-408, nr. 72-78  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 350, nr. 4185 ❐

editions

cn.mesembria.1_ed.227  🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 469, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/469 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/24]

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