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A provincial holed bronze coin of the emperor Gordian III with his wife Tranquillina Coin Type: Bronze AE33 of Gordian III, Caesar 238 CE, Augustus 238-244 CE.
Mint and Date: Singara in Mesopotamia, 238-244 CE.
Size and Weight: 32mm, 22.31g.
Obverse: AVTOK K M ANT ΓOPΔIANON CAB TPANKVΛΛINA CЄB
Confronted busts of Gordian right, laureate, draped and cuirassed, and Tranquillina L, draped and wearing stephane.
Reverse: AVR CЄΠ KOΛ CINΓAPA
Tyche seated left on rock, holding branch; the centaur Sagittarius above to left, discharging arrow, river god swimming left below.
Provenance: Ancient Imports (Vcoins), November 2005
Ref: BMC Mesopotamia pg. 135, 13; SNG Copenhagen 257; Lindgren & Kovacs 2627
BW Ref: 036 026 023
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