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cn type 4794

Mint

Anchialos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

241-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ *ΑVΓ* ϹΕΒ // ΤΡΑΝΚVΛΛ/ΙΝΑ

Design

Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
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Reverse

Legend

ΟVΛΠΙΑΝ*WΝ* - Α-ΓΧΙΑΛΕ*WΝ*

Design

Winged Nike standing facing, head left, holding wreath in outstretched right hand and palm branch in lowered left arm. Ground line. Border of dots.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

5 unit 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 30 mm / Min: 27 mm

Average Weight

14.11 g (3x)

Axes

6 (1x) 7 (1x) 12 (1x)

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. 285, nr. 663.1, pl. 8, pic. 24 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 686, nr. 247-254, pl. 158 ❐

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. 1176-1177 ❐

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cn type 4794, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4794 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]