Anchialos, Gordian III., bronze (CN type 22752)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Issuing entity
ThraceCoin type in bronze struck at Anchialos in Thrace under Gordian III., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 22752. Obverse: Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped. Reverse: Serapis standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, raising right arm, holding drapery and long sceptre in left hand; holding sceptre diagonally in front of his body.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded mean weight
- 9.9 g (mean of 1 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Anchialos
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Gordian III.
Design
- Obverse type
- Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
- Reverse type
- Serapis standing facing, head left, wearing kalathos, raising right arm, holding drapery and long sceptre in left hand; holding sceptre diagonally in front of his body.
- Obverse legend
- ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟᛈ *ΑV*Γ ϹЄΒ // ΤΡΑΝΚVΛ/ΛΕΙΝΑ
- Reverse legend
- ΟVΛΠΙΑΝWΝ ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕWΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/22752
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 22752
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. 651
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 550–570, 576–589
- external concordance
Research required
- Diameter not recorded in the source corpus
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution