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cn type 4756

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Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ ΑVΓ
Design
Radiate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΟVΛΠΙΑΝWΝ ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕWΝ
Design
Nude Apollo standing facing, head left, holding laurel branch in right hand, resting left on tripod entwined by serpent.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Material
Diameter
Max: 29 mm / Min: 26 mm
Average Weight
15.70 g (2x)
Axes
6 (1x)
Public Commentary

RPC VII.2, 1106.

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. 274, nr. 625-2.3, pl. VIII, pic. 7 

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 59, nr. 648 

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 634, nr. 45-46, pl. 132 

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. 1106 

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. 1107 

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1106

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1107

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cn type 4756, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4756 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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