cn type 4791

Mint

Anchialos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

241-244 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ *ΑV*Γ // ᛈΕΒ ΤΡΑΝ/ΚVΛΛΙ/ΝΑ

Design

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

Legend

ΟVΛΠΙΑΝ*WΝ* - ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕ*WΝ*

Design

Apollo? standing facing, head left, holding patera in outstretched right hand and resting his left arm on column.
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Persons

Sitter

Tranquillina 🔍 ❐

Sitter

Gordian III. 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

5 unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 27 mm / Min: 26 mm

Average Weight

12.51 g (4x)

Axes

7 (3x)

Public Commentary

RPC VII.2, 1130.

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. 283, nr. 656.1  ❐

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 647, nr. 152-162, pl. 152  ❐

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. 1130  ❐

Literature

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1130  ❐

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cn type 4791, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/4791 [Last downloaded: 2025/01/25]

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