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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Deultum| > RP79970
Tranquillina, Augusta, May 241 - 25 February 244 A.D., Deultum, Thrace
|Deultum|, |Tranquillina,| |Augusta,| |May| |241| |-| |25| |February| |244| |A.D.,| |Deultum,| |Thrace|, Tranquillina was the beautiful daughter of the faithful Praetorian Prefect Timisitheus and was married to Gordian III in May 241 A.D. Greatly loved by her husband, she survived his assassination, possibly due to her immense popularity with both the general population and the soldiery. The imperial coinage of Tranquillina is very rare. Provincial coinage of Tranquillina is more available.
RP79970. Bronze AE 24, Jurukova Deultum 414; SNG Deultum 1526 (O148/R67); Draganov Deultum 1527a (O148/R67); Varbanov II 2957 (R4); Moushmov 3744; MPR II - 4 2083, aVF, well centered, some corrosion, cleaning scratches, Deultum (Debelt, Bulgaria) mint, weight 7.108g, maximum diameter 23.7mm, die axis 0o, May 241 - 25 Feb 244 A.D.; obverse SAB TRANQVILLINA AVG, draped bust right, wearing stephane, elaborate hairstyle with hair in ridges, and in plait looped below her ear and then up the back of her head; reverse COL FL PA-C, DEVLT (starting above, ending in exergue), she-wolf standing right, head turned back left, suckling the infant twins Romulus and Remus; SOLD










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