cn type 4827

Mint

Anchialos 🔍 ❐
Region: Thrace ❐

Date

c. 241-244 AD
Roman Imperial Period  🔍

Obverse

Legend

ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ Α*VΓ* ϹΕΒ // ΤΡΑΝΚVΛ/ΛΕΙΝΑ

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

Triptolemos standing in biga drawn by two winged serpents, heading right.
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Persons

Sitter

Tranquillina 🔍 ❐

Sitter

Gordian III. 🔍 ❐

Metrology

Denomination

5 unit 🔍 ❐

Material

bronze  🔍 ❐

Diameter

Max: 26 mm / Min: 25 mm

Average Weight

10.33 g (2x)

Axes

6 (1x)

Citation

Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 672-674, nr. 147-151, pl. 151-152  ❐

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. 1189  ❐

Literature

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. 655  ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1189  ❐

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cn type 4827, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/4827 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/17]

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