Anchialos, Gordian III., bronze (CN type 14994)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
238–244 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceCoin type in bronze struck at Anchialos in Thrace under Gordian III. dated 238–244 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 14994. Obverse: Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped. Reverse: Nemesis standing facing, head left, holding patera and staff.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded mean weight
- 12.31 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Anchialos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Gordian III.
Design
- Obverse type
- Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
- Reverse type
- Nemesis standing facing, head left, holding patera and staff.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ *ΑV*Γ ϹЄΒ ΤΡΑ*ΝΚ*VΛΛΙΝΑ
- Reverse legend
- ΟVΛΠΙΑΝ*ΩΝ* ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕ*ΩΝ*
Identification
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/14994
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 14994
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Research required
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 1170
- external concordanceRPC VII.2, 1170
Research required
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution