cn type 421

Edition

An edition has been created for this type.🔍

Mint

Mesembria 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐
Typology

Date

241-244 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ 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

Asclepius standing facing, holding serpent-staff in right hand.
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Persons

Sitter

Tranquillina 🔍 ❐

Sitter

Gordian III. 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

4 unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 27 mm / Min: 24 mm

Average Weight

10.9 g (2x)

Axes

7 (1x)

Citation

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009 p. 406, nr. 60-70, pl. 135, pic. 60-70  (Karayotov Nr. 71 is uncertain.)  ❐

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 350, nr. 4182  ❐

editions

cn.mesembria.1_ed.225 🔍

Cite this record:

cn type 421, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/421 [Last downloaded: 2024/12/12]

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