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TRANQUILLINA (Furia Sabinia), daughter of Misitheus, Praefect of the Praetorians and Prime Minister of Gordianus III.
That promising young prince's friendship for and confidence in so wise, eloquent, and able statesman, and so eminently good a man, rendered him the more capable of appreciating the merits of Tranquillina; and, preferring her to any of the daughters of the most illustrous Roman families, he gave her his hand in marriage, v.c. 994 (A.D. 241).
Young, beautyful, and intelligent, she graced, by the sweetness of her disposition and the purity of her morals, the illustrious elevation to which Gordian had rised her, and secured her from the virtuous of all ranks of both sexes throughout the empire, congenial tributes and public testimonies of love, respect and admiration.
She survived her murdered husband; but her subsequent lot in life and the period of her death remain equally without record.
Of this empress's coins there are but few of Roman die - none genuine in gold. The silver and first brass in the highest degree of rarity. She in styled on these SABINIA TRANQUILLINA AVGusta. Her prenomen Furia is omitted on her Latin coins; but frequently appears on the more numerous Greek medals struck in honour of this excellent princess, from one of which the portrait above is engraved.