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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Greek Coins| ▸ |Greek Imperial| ▸ |Dacia & Moesia||View Options:   | | | |
In 241, Timesitheus was appointed Praetorian Prefect. In May, Gordian married his daughter Tranquillina and she was made Augusta. The marriage was an admission of 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.RP54135. Bronze pentassarion, Varbanov 691, AMNG I/I 528, VF, weight 13.509 g, maximum diameter 26.2 mm, die axis 180o, Istros (near Istria, Romania) mint, May 241 - 25 Feb 244 A.D.; obverse AVT K M ANT ΓOP∆IANOC CABI TRANKIΛIHN, confronted busts of Gordian on left, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Tranquillina on right, draped and wearing stephane; reverse ICTPIHNΩN, Tyche standing half left, kalathos on head, rudder on globe in right hand, cornucopia in left hand, E (mark of value) in left field; SOLD
Tomis, Moesia Inferior, Reign of Augustus, 27 B.C. - 14 A.D.
Eueteria was the goddess (or spirit or personification) of plenty and the fertile season. Homonoia was the goddess (or spirit or personification) of harmony, concord, unanimity, and oneness of mind.RP34578. Bronze AE 18, RPC I 1823, AMNG I 2576, Varbanov I 3639, aVF, weight 2.836 g, maximum diameter 17.6 mm, die axis 180o, Tomis (Constanta, Romania) mint, obverse EYETHPIA OMONOIA, jugate busts of Eueteria and Homonoia; reverse TOMITWN, cornucopia filled with grain-ears and grape-bunches, grain-ears near tip; rare; SOLD
Elagabalus, 16 May 218 - 11 March 222 A.D., Nikopolis ad Istrum, Moesia Inferior
Asclepius learned the secrets of healing after seeing one snake bring another herbs. Woman seeking fertility, and the sick and injured, slept in his temples where snakes were left to crawl on the floor and provide healing. Nearby excavations found 2nd c. bronze surgical instruments and a case containing a variety of medicines.RP29741. Bronze AE 26, Varbanov I 3978a, EF, superb portrait, upper reverse flat, weight 11.319 g, maximum diameter 26.1 mm, die axis 180o, Nicopolis ad Istrum (Nikyup, Bulgaria) mint, cos. legate Ti. Flavius Novius Rufus, 218 - 222; obverse AVT K AVPH ANTΩNEINOC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse YΠ NOBIOY POYΦOY NIKOΠOΛITΩN ΠΠOC ICTPON, Asklepios standing facing, head left, resting right hand on snake-entwined staff, left hand on hip; SOLD
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