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cn type 421

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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 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
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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
10.90 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  🔍

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cn type 421, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/421 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/25]

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