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Gordian III and Tranquillina, 29 July 238 - 25 February 244 A.D., Tomis, Moesia Inferior
In 241, Tranquillina's father was appointed the head of the Praetorian Guard. In May that year, Gordian married Tranquillina and she received the honorific title of Augusta. Her marriage to Gordian was an admission by the young emperor of both the political indispensability of Timesitheus and Tranquillina's suitability as an empress. Tranquillina survived her husband. She had no sons with him but they may have had a daughter, born after Gordian's death.RP84850. Bronze tetrassarion, AMNG I/2 3511, Varbanov I 5730 var. (bust), BMC Macedonia p. 63, 60 var. (obv. leg.); SNG Stancomb 901 var. (Δ/C), SNG Cop -, SNG Mün -, gVF/VF, centered on a tight flan, rough areas on reverse, Tomis (Constanta, Romania) mint, weight 12.052g, maximum diameter 27.0mm, die axis 0o, 241 - 244 A.D.; obverse AVT K M ANTΩNIOC ΓOP-ΔIANOC, confronted busts of Gordian on left, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, seen from behind and Tranquillina on right, draped and wearing stephane, CABINIA TPA/NKVΛΛINA in two lines below busts; reverse MHTPO ΠONTOV TOMEΩC, Zeus seated left, patera in right hand, long scepter in left hand, Δ right; ex Colosseum Coin Exchange; rare; SOLD
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