Anchialos, Gordian III., 5 unit (CN type 15015)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
238–244 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace5 unit in bronze struck at Anchialos in Thrace under Gordian III. dated 238–244 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 15015. Obverse: Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped. Reverse: Tyche enthroned left, wearing kalathos, holding rudder in right hand, cornucopia in left arm.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- 5 unit
- Recorded diameter
- 26–27 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 11.99 g (mean of 2 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
- Tyche enthroned left, wearing kalathos, holding rudder in right hand, cornucopia in left arm.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ Α*VΓ* ϹΕΒ // ΤΡΑΝΚVΛ/ΛΕΙΝΑ
- Reverse legend
- ΟVΛΠΙΑΝWΝ - ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕWΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/15015
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 15015
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Documented
- 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 bibliographyp. 706, nr. 396-400, pl. 168
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 1190
- external concordanceRPC VII.2, 1190
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution