Anchialos, Maximinus Thrax, bronze (CN type 22357)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
235-238 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceCoin type in bronze struck at Anchialos in Thrace under Maximinus Thrax dated 235-238 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 22357. Obverse: Laureate bust of Maximinus Thrax, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Nude Triptolemos standing in biga, right, drawn by two winged serpents, wearing fluttering chlamys, holding seeds in chlamys with left hand, sowing with right hand.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded diameter
- 26–28.2 mm (from 5 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 11.9 g (mean of 4 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Anchialos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Maximinus Thrax
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of Maximinus Thrax, right, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Nude Triptolemos standing in biga, right, drawn by two winged serpents, wearing fluttering chlamys, holding seeds in chlamys with left hand, sowing with right hand.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ ΜΑΞΙΜΕΙ-ΝΟᛈ ΕVᛈΕΒ*Ηᛈ* *ΑVΓ*
- Reverse legend
- ΟVΛΠΙΑΝωΝ ΑΓ//ΧΙΑΛΕωΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/22357
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 22357
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. 574-576, nr. 57-66, pl. 102-103
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution