Anchialos, Gordian III., 3 unit (CN type 15025)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
238–244 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace3 unit in bronze struck at Anchialos in Thrace under Gordian III. dated 238–244 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 15025. Obverse: Laureate head of Gordian III, right. Reverse: Nude Hermes seated left on rock, wearing petasus, holding caduceus in right hand resting on his right raised knee, and purse in left hand resting on the rock. Ground line.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- 3 unit
- Recorded mean weight
- 7.27 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Anchialos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Gordian III.
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate head of Gordian III, right.
- Reverse type
- Nude Hermes seated left on rock, wearing petasus, holding caduceus in right hand resting on his right raised knee, and purse in left hand resting on the rock. Ground line.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑVΓ
- Reverse legend
- ΑΓΧ-ΙΑ-ΛΕΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/15025
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 15025
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. 650, nr. 135-137, pl. 140
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 1203
- external concordanceRPC VII.2, 1203
Research required
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution