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cn type 4783

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Anchialos 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Date

238-244 AD

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Obverse
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ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ ΑVΓ
Design
Laureate head of Gordian III, right.
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Reverse
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Legend reverse ΑΓ-ΧΙΑ-ΛΕ//ΩΝ
Design
Dolphin swimming left; between two tunnies, upper swimming to left, lower swimming to right.
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Sitter: Gordian III. 🔍  

Metrology
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Material
Diameter
25 mm (4x)
Average Weight
8.06 g (5x)
Axes
7 (1x) 10 (1x) 12 (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. 280, nr. 645.1 

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 56, nr. 611 

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. 1200 

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 648-650, nr. 124-127a, pl. 139-140 

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1200

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cn type 4783, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/4783 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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