Markianopolis, Tranquillina, bronze (CN type 21846)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
241-244 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Moesia inferiorCoin type in bronze struck at Markianopolis in Moesia inferior under Tranquillina dated 241-244 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 21846. Obverse: Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped. Reverse: Serapis standing left, wearing kalathos, raising right arm, holding sceptre in left hand.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded diameter
- 28 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 11.68 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Markianopolis
- Region
- Moesia inferior
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Tranquillina
Design
- Obverse type
- Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
- Reverse type
- Serapis standing left, wearing kalathos, raising right arm, holding sceptre in left hand.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ *ΑVΓ* ϹЄ ΤΡΑΝΚVΛΛЄΙΝΑ
- Reverse legend
- VΠ ΤΕΡΤVΛΙΑΝΟV ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/21846
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 21846
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. 1446
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 1173-1174
- external concordanceRPC VII.2, 1446
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution