bpv_941579 - GORDIANUS III and TRANQUILLINA Pentassaria
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Type : Pentassaria
Date: 241-244
Mint name / Town : Marcianopolis, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28,5 mm
Weight : 12,92 g.
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Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale avec le grènetis visible à l’usure importante, mais lisible et identifiable. Patine marron
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 SEB// TRANKUL/LEINA
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Marc Antoine Gordien auguste et l'augusta Tranquilline).
Reverse
Reverse description : Incus.
Commentary
Incus.
Incus
Incus
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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