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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Greek Imperial| > |Dacia & Moesia| > RP54135
Gordian III and Tranquillina, May 241 - 25 February 244 A.D. Moesia Inferior, Istros
|Dacia| |&| |Moesia|, |Gordian| |III| |and| |Tranquillina,| |May| |241| |-| |25| |February| |244| |A.D.| |Moesia| |Inferior,| |Istros|, 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, Istros (near Istria, Romania) mint, weight 13.509g, maximum diameter 26.2mm, die axis 180o, May 241 - 25 Feb 244 A.D.; obverse AVT K M ANT ΓOPΔIANOC 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











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