Anchialos, Maximinus Thrax, Double unit (CN type 22412)
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 22412. Obverse: Laureate bust of Maximinus Thrax, left, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, holding spear and shield. Reverse: Labour of Heracles: Nude Heracles standing right, strangling the Nemean lion.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- Double unit
- Recorded diameter
- 19–21.6 mm (from 2 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 4.65 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Anchialos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Maximinus Thrax
Design
- Obverse type
- Laureate bust of Maximinus Thrax, left, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, holding spear and shield.
- Reverse type
- Labour of Heracles: Nude Heracles standing right, strangling the Nemean lion.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ–ΜΑΣΙΜΕΙΝΟϹ ΕVϹ
- Reverse legend
- ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕWΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/22412
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 22412
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. 303-305a, pl. 120
- external concordance
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution