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cn type 4755

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Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Radiate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΟVΛΠΙΑΝWΝ ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕWΝ
Design
Nude Apollo (Bonus Eventus) standing facing, head left, holding patera and laurel branch.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 31.2 mm / Min: 28.1 mm
Average Weight
13.40 g (2x)
Axes
7 (2x)
Public Commentary

RPC VII.2, 1105.

Citation

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 274, nr. 624  ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 59, nr. 647  ❐

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. 1105  ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 636, nr. 52-55, pl. 133  ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1105 ❐

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cn type 4755, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4755 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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