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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Marcianopolis| > RP64538
Gordian III, 29 July 238 - 25 February 244 A.D., Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior
|Marcianopolis|, |Gordian| |III,| |29| |July| |238| |-| |25| |February| |244| |A.D.,| |Marcianopolis,| |Moesia| |Inferior|, Renamed by Trajan after his sister, Ulpia Marciana, Marcianopolis was an important strategic center for centuries. The city was repeatedly destroyed by barbarian raids (Goths, Huns, Avars and others) but also was repeatedly rebuilt and prospered. During Valens' conflict with the Goths, Marcianopolis was a temporary capital of the empire and the largest city in Thrace. An Avar raid destroyed the city in 614 or 615.
RP64538. Bronze pentassarion, H-J Marcianopolis 6.37.36.4 (same dies); cf. Varbanov I 1994 (ANTWNIOC, E in left field); AMNG I/I -, Choice VF, Markianopolis (Devnya, Bulgaria) mint, weight 12.491g, maximum diameter 27.3mm, die axis 180o, consular legate Tullius Menophilus, 238 - 240 A.D.; obverse M ANT ΓOPΔIANOC AYI, AYT K below, confronted busts of Gordian on left, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, seen from behind; and Serapis on right, draped, wearing kalathos on head; reverse YΠ MHNOΦIΛOY MAPKIANOΠOΛITΩN, Homonoia standing half left, wearing kalathos, patera in right hand, cornucopia in left hand, inverted E (mark of value) in right; SOLD











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