Anchialos, Caracalla, bronze (CN type 21727)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
197-217 n.Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceCoin type in bronze struck at Anchialos in Thrace under Caracalla dated 197-217 n.Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 21727. Obverse: Laureate bust of Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Closed and crenellated city gate, flanked by two towers; below, ship on four wave-lines.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded mean weight
- 12.13 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Anchialos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Caracalla
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of Caracalla, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Closed and crenellated city gate, flanked by two towers; below, ship on four wave-lines.
- Obverse legend
- ΑΥ Κ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΟVΛΠΙΑΝΩΝ ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/21727
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 21727
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 bibliographyp. 540, nr. 193-195, pl. 85
Research required
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution