cn type 4778

Mint

Anchialos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

238-244 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ - ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ

Design

Radiated bust of Gordian III, right, wearing paludamentum.
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Reverse

Legend

ΟVΛΠΙ-Α-Ν-ΩΝ ΑΓΧ//ΙΑΛΕΩΝ

Design

City gate, flanked by two towers with conical roofs; above, gallery of four arches; surmounted by nude Poseidon advancing right, raising left arm, extending left hand.
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Persons

Sitter

Gordian III. 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

5 unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 27.4 mm / Min: 27 mm

Average Weight

15.09 g (2x)

Axes

7 (2x)

Public Commentary

RPC VII.2, 1116.

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. 278, nr. 637.1  ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 638, nr. 66-70, pl. 134  ❐

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. 1116  ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1116  ❐

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cn type 4778, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/4778 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/24]

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