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E-auction 256-179045 - bpv_400923 - GORDIANUS III and TRANQUILLINA Pentassaria

GORDIANUS III and TRANQUILLINA Pentassaria AU
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Estimate : 175 €
Price : 120 €
Maximum bid : 150 €
End of the sale : 12 March 2018 14:49:00
bidders : 6 bidders
Type : Pentassaria
Date: 241-244
Mint name / Town : Odessus, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27,50 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 12,16 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Beaux portraits. Revers inhabituel. Jolie patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse description : Bustes affrontés de Gordien III lauré, drapé et cuirassé à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière et de Tranquilline diadémée et drapée à gauche vu de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse legend : AUT K M ANT GORDIANOS (AUG) SE// TRANKUL/LEINA (Autokrator Kaisar Markos Antwnios Gordianos Augusta Sebasta Trankulleina).
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Marc Antoine Gordien auguste et l'augusta Tranquilline).

Reverse


Reverse description : Nemesis (le Destin) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une bâton de la main droite et un objet indéterminé de la main gauche ; une roue à ses pieds.
Reverse legend : ODHS-SEITWN/ E|-, (Odhsseitwn).
Reverse translation : (Odessos).

Commentary


Point de centrage au droit. Représentation inhabituelle au revers.

Historical background


GORDIANUS III and TRANQUILLINA

(241-244)

Gordian III married the daughter of the prefect of the Praetorian Timésithée, Tranquillina, in 241. The following year, she accompanied the emperor to the East. After the death of his father, replaced by Philip the Arab, we lose track of him. Gordian was assassinated in 244 at the instigation of the new prefect of the Praetorium.

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