cn type 4745

Mint

Anchialos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΑVΓ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ

Design

Laureate bust of Gordian III, left, partly seen from behind, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, holding spear pointing forward and shield decorated with eagle.
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Reverse

Legend

ΟVΛΠΙΑΝΩΝ ΑΝΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ

Design

Asclepius enthroned right, head left, holding serpent staff in right and unidentified object in left hand.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

Medallion 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 36 mm / Min: 35 mm

Public Commentary

RPC VII.2, 1098

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. 272, nr. 618, pl. VIII, 2 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 56, nr. 622 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 622, nr. 2-4, pl. 126 ❐

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. 1098 ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1098 ❐

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cn type 4745, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4745 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]