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Mint

Hoard

Findspot

cn type 4777

Mint

Anchialos 🔍

Region: Thrace

Date

241-244 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ Α*VΓ* ϹΑΒ ΤΡΑΝΚVΛΛΙΝΑ

Design

Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
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Reverse

Legend

ΟVΛΠΙΑΝΩΝ ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ

Design

Homonoia standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, holding patera in outstretched right hand and cornucopia in left arm.
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Persons

Sitter: Tranquillina 🔍

Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍

Metrology

Denomination

5 unit 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 28.4 mm / Min: 25.8 mm

Average Weight

12.31 g (11x)

Axes

6 (3x) 7 (3x)

Public Commentary

RPC VII.2, 1163.

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. 288 f., nr. 675,4 ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 712-720, nr. 445-499, pl. 171-175 ❐

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. 1164 ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1164 ❐

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cn type 4777, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4777 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]