cn type 4760
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cn type 4760

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Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

238-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
Design
Radiate bust of Gordian III, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
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Reverse
Legend
ΟVΛΠΙΑΝΩΝ ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ
Design
Nude bearded Hercules standing left, head right, leaning on club and holding lion skin.
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Persons

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Material
Diameter
Max: 28 mm / Min: 26 mm
Average Weight
15.10 g (1x)
Axes
7 (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. 275, nr. 629-2, pl. VIII, pic. 10 

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. 1122 

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 638, nr. 62-64, pl. 134 

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1122

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cn type 4760, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4760 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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