Anchialos, Antoninus Pius, bronze (CN type 14339)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
154–155 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceCoin type in bronze struck at Anchialos in Thrace under Antoninus Pius dated 154–155 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 14339. Obverse: Laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right. Reverse: Nude Triptolemos standing in biga, right, drawn by two winged serpents, wearing fluttering chlamys, holding seeds in chlamys with left hand, sowing with right hand.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded diameter
- 30–31 mm (from 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Anchialos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Antoninus Pius
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right.
- Reverse type
- Nude Triptolemos standing in biga, right, drawn by two winged serpents, wearing fluttering chlamys, holding seeds in chlamys with left hand, sowing with right hand.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ ΚΑΙ Τ ΑΙ ΑΔΡΙ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΗΓΕ ΙΟV ΚΟΜΜΟΔΟV ΑΝΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ
Identification
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/14339
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 14339
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Research required
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Research required
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 384, nr. 53-53a, pl. 7
- external concordance
Research required
- Weight not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution