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Mesembria, Tranquillina, 4 unit — Serapis standing left (CN type 431)

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Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

AD 241–244

Issuing entity

Thrace

4 unit in bronze struck at Mesembria in Thrace under Tranquillina, dated AD 241–244. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 431 (period: Roman Imperial Period; issuing authority type: city).

Obverse: Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped. Legend: ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ ϹΑΒΙΝΑ ΤΡΑΝΚVΛΛΙΝΑ ϹΕ. Reverse: Serapis standing left, wearing kalathos, raising right arm, holding sceptre in left hand. Legend: ΜΕϹΑΜΒΡΙΑΝΩΝ. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 12.09 g (mean of 3 recorded specimens) and a diameter of 26–27 mm (from 3 recorded specimens).

Published references cited by the corpus: Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Bronze Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 2009, p. 412, nr. 133-137, pl. 138, pic. 133-137; Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005, p. 352, nr. 4210.

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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
How to identify
Check the mint name or ethnic, the reverse type and the legend together, then compare weight and module; types from the same mint often differ only in legend arrangement, magistrate names or control marks.
Type corpus record
https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/431
Type corpus identifier
CN type 431

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