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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Pontos| > RP51386
Tranquillina, Augusta, Wife of Gordian III, May 241 - 25 February 244 A.D., Neocaesarea, Pontus
|Pontos|, |Tranquillina,| |Augusta,| |Wife| |of| |Gordian| |III,| |May| |241| |-| |25| |February| |244| |A.D.,| |Neocaesarea,| |Pontus|, Tranquillina was the beautiful wife of Gordian III and daughter of the faithful Praetorian Prefect Timisitheus. Greatly loved by her husband, she survived his assassination, possibly due to her popularity with the general population and the soldiers.
RP51386. Bronze AE 28, Rec Gen 58; cf. SNGvA 105 (Sev Alexander); BMC Pontus p. 34, 13 (Gordian III); SGICV 3660 (Gordian III), VF, green patina, Neocaesarea mint, weight 15.192g, maximum diameter 28.2mm, die axis 210o, May 241 - 25 Feb 244 A.D.; obverse CABINIA TPANKVΛΛINA CEBACTH, draped bust right; reverse KOI ΠONT MH NEOKAICAPIAC, Agnostic table with prize urn and palm on top, kantharos under table, palm fronds flanking table, ETPOH in exergue; very rare; SOLD










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REFERENCES|

Cohen, H. Description historique des monnaies frappées sous l’Empire Romain, Vol. 5: Gordian I to Valerian II. (Paris, 1885).
Mattingly, H.B., E.A. Sydenham & C.H.V. Sutherland. The Roman Imperial Coinage, Vol IV, From Pertinax to Uranius Antoninus. (London, 1986).
Robinson, A. Roman Imperial Coins in the Hunter Coin Cabinet, University of Glasgow, Vol. III. Pertinax to Aemilian. (Oxford, 1977).
Seaby, H.A. & D.R. Sear. Roman Silver Coins, Volume IV, Gordian III to Postumus. (London, 1982).
Sear, D.R. Roman Coins and Their Values III, The Accession of Maximinus I to the Death of Carinus AD 235 - AD 285. (London, 2005).

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