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Price : 125.00 €
Type : Tetrassaria
Date: 241-244
Mint name / Town : Anchialus, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 13,73 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan épais, centré. Joli revers. Patine foncée
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 arrière.
Obverse legend : AUT K M ANT GORDIANOS AUG. SAB.// TRANKUL/LINA, (Autokrator Kaisaros Markos Antonios Gordianos Augustos Sabeina Trankullina)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc-Antoine Gordien auguste et l'augusta Sabine Tranquilline).
Reverse
Reverse description : Athéna, casquée, assise à gauche, tenant un sceptre long.
Reverse legend : OULPIANwN - ANCIALEWN, (Oulpianwn Agcialewn
Reverse translation : (Ulpia Anchialus).
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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