Anchialus 26816

Photographer: BBAW

Emperor

Date

Obverse

Symbol Gordian III, Tranquillina
Design Confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, seen from behind, and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped.
Legend ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ Α*VΓ* ϹΕΒ // ΤΡΑΝΚVΛ/ΛΕΙΝΑ

Reverse

Symbol Hera
Design Veiled Hera standing facing, head left, wearing stephane, holding patera in outstretched right hand, left resting on long sceptre. Border of dots.
Legend ΟVΛΠΙΑΝΩΝ ΑΓΧΙΑΛΕΩΝ

Literature

Reference

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 282, nr. 652.1 ❐ Tachev, Monetosecheneto na Anchialos (Coinage of Anchialos), Sofia 2018 p. 666-668, nr. 92-114, pl. 148-149 ❐ Mairat and Spoerri Butcher, RPC VII 2: Roman provincial coinage. Vol. VII 2: From Gordian I to Gordian III (AD 238–244): all provinces except Asia. print and online, London 2022 nr. 1158 ❐ Mairat and Spoerri Butcher, RPC VII 2: Roman provincial coinage. Vol. VII 2: From Gordian I to Gordian III (AD 238–244): all provinces except Asia. print and online, London 2022 nr. 1159