Object Title
Coin of Anchialus with bust of Gordian III
Measurements
Diameter: 38 mm.; weight: 37.88 gm.; die axis: 12
Creation Date
A.D. 238–244
Credit Line
Gift of Cornelius C. Vermeule III
Museum Name
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/coin-of-anchialus-with-bust-of-gordian-iii-446679
Provenance Information
November 20-21, 1981, anonymous sale (Auction 11), Frank Sternberg AG, Zürich, lot 227, sold to Cornelius C. Vermeule, III (b. 1925 – d. 2008), Cambridge, MA [see note 1]; 2008, gift of Vermeule to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 22, 2008)
NOTES: [1] Lent by Cornelius Vermeule to the MFA from 2004 until 2008 (loan no. L-G 115.1.2004).
NOTES: [1] Lent by Cornelius Vermeule to the MFA from 2004 until 2008 (loan no. L-G 115.1.2004).
Exhibition Information
None known
Publication Information
None known
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Cumulative facts and circumstances
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
This coin appeared in an auction in Switzerland nearly thirty years ago, though the date and circumstances of the its discovery are not known. While the location of Anchialus, the mint at which this coin was struck, falls within the borders of present-day Bulgaria, the city was one of the principal urban centers of the Roman province of Thrace, and the circulation of its coinage would have extended into present-day Greece and Turkey; thus its findspot cannot be placed within the boundaries of a single modern country.