cn type 4761

Mint

Anchialos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟϹ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ

Design

Radiate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse

Legend

ΟVΛΠΙΑΝWΝ ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕWΝ

Design

Nude athlete standing facing, head right, crowning himself, holding palm branch in left arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

5 unit 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 29.5 mm / Min: 26 mm

Average Weight

12.14 g (1x)

Axes

6 (1x)

Public Commentary

RPC VII.2, 1114.

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. 276, nr. 630-1, pl. VIII, pic. 11 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 60, nr. 655 ❐

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. 1114 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 644, nr. 95-101, pl. 137 ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1114 ❐

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cn type 4761, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4761 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]