Mesembria, Tranquillina, 4 unit (CN type 431)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
241-244 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
Thrace4 unit in bronze struck at Mesembria in Thrace under Tranquillina dated 241-244 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 431. Obverse: Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and 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
- Denomination
- 4 unit
- Recorded diameter
- 26–27 mm (from 3 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 12.09 g (mean of 3 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Mesembria
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City
- Issuing authority
- Tranquillina
Design
- Obverse type
- Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and 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 ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ ϹΑΒΙΝΑ ΤΡΑΝΚVΛΛΙΝΑ ϹΕ
- Reverse legend
- ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/431
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 431
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. 412, nr. 133-137, pl. 138, pic. 133-137
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 352, nr. 4210
Research required
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