Tranquillina ?

[Mario T]

Hi, I am searching to completely identify this coin, 16 mm, 2,8 gr.

thanks in advance for any help

[mauseus]

Hi,

Sadly the style of this coin is all wrong and it is a modern forgery. It is trying to be a rare denarius of the empress Tranquillina, wife of Gordian III.

Apologies for the bad news.

Mauseus

[djmacdo]

I can only agree!

[Mario T]

Thanks for the replies (the coin comes from a fifty-sixty year old collection).
 
I think it refers to the RIC 341 type (see attachment )

I looked for photos of some examples of coins RIC 341 Tranquillina but I couldn't find any anywhere, thanks if anyone can post it

[Din X]

RIC 341 has an S C on the reverse and is an AS.
Yours is supposed to be a denarius but copying the reverse of an AS!

Authentic RIC 341  ASSES with S C

https://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.gor_iii.341

The fake could be old between 500 and 100 years and so has some value but we do not know the exact day when it was made and the forger.
For a reasonable and fair price considering the facts that it is a crude fake of which we do not know the forger or exact date when it was made I would be interested, I collect fakes.

[mauseus]

Hi,

As DinX says, you are quoting from the bronze section of RIC. The equivalent section of silver in RIC  is posted below. Yours is imitating a denarius that would be after RIC 252 and before RIC 253. The original of what your coin purports to be may not exist (although plausibly it could turn up, given what is known to exist of this reverse type in other denominations).

Regards,

Mauseus

[mauseus]

Hi,

Here we are, one has been found, as predicted above. Heritage Auctions, 19 August 2021, Lot 33094.

Regards,

Mauseus

[Mario T]

Thanks to all