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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Marcianopolis| > RP33650
Gordian III and Tranquillina, May 241 - 25 February 244 A.D., Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior
|Marcianopolis|, |Gordian| |III| |and| |Tranquillina,| |May| |241| |-| |25| |February| |244| |A.D.,| |Marcianopolis,| |Moesia| |Inferior|, Tyche (Greek for luck; the Roman equivalent was Fortuna) was the presiding tutelary deity that governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny. Increasingly during the Hellenistic period, cities had their own specific iconic version of Tyche, wearing a mural crown (a crown like the walls of the city).
RP33650. Bronze pentassarion, H-J Marcianopolis 6.38.46.2 (same dies, R6), Varbanov I 2057 (same dies, R4), AMNG I/I 1192 (same reverse die), Moushmov 841, VF, Markianopolis (Devnya, Bulgaria) mint, weight 11.363g, maximum diameter 28.1mm, die axis 180o, consular legate Tertullianus, 241 - 244 A.D.; obverse AYT K M ANT ΓOPΔIANOC AYΓ CE, TPANKYΛ/ΛEINA (legend ends in two lines below busts), confronted busts of Gordian on left, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Tranquillina on right, draped and wearing stephane; reverse YΠ TEPTYΛΛIANOY MAPKIANO,ΠOΛIT,Ω/N (legend continues into exergue, and ends on right side of the temple), tetrastyle temple containing statue of Tyche standing facing, head left, rudder in right hand, cornucopia in left hand, horned roof, pellet in pediment, E (mark of value) in left field; scarce; SOLD










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