Anchialos, Maximinus Thrax, Double unit (CN type 22410)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
235-238 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceDouble unit in bronze struck at Anchialos in Thrace under Maximinus Thrax dated 235-238 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 22410. Obverse: Confronted busts of Maximinus Thrax, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Maximus, wearing cuirass and paludamentum. Reverse: Homonoia standing facing, head left, holding patera in outstretched right hand over burning and garlanded altar and cornucopia in left arm.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- Double unit
- Recorded diameter
- 22–22.1 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 4.98 g (mean of 2 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Anchialos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Maximinus Thrax
Design
- Obverse type
- Confronted busts of Maximinus Thrax, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Maximus, wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
- Reverse type
- Homonoia standing facing, head left, holding patera in outstretched right hand over burning and garlanded altar and cornucopia in left arm.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ ΜΑΞΙΜ-ΕΙΝΟᛈ ΕVᛈ *ΑVΓ*
- Reverse legend
- ΑΓ-ΧΙ-ΑΛЄΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/22410
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 22410
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. 610, nr. 297-301, pl. 120
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution