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A bronze coin of Tranquillina from Sardes in Lydia showing the moon god Men Coin Type: Bronze AE21 of Tranquillina, 241-244 CE.
Mint and Date: Sardes in Lydia, 241-244 CE.
Size and Weight: 21mm, 2.88g.
Obverse: ΦOVP TPANKVΛΛЄINA CA
Diademed and draped bust right.
Reverse: CAPΔIANΩN B NЄΩKOPΩN
Mên Askênos standing facing, head left, wearing a Phrygian bonnet and an ornate robe with ribbons falling from the shoulders, a crescent moon behind his shoulders, holding out a pine-cone on his right hand and grasping a tall sceptre with a high grip in his left.
Provenance: Gerhard Rohde (Vcoins), March 2010
Ref: BMC 271, 194
BW Ref: 001 048 156
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Note: On 19 March 2010, Pat Lawrence wrote on the Forum Classical Numismatics Discussion Board: "This is indeed your Lydian Mên, but at Sardis his surname is Askênos (or Askaenos), the usual explanation for the specific surname being that it is a local cult name."

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