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bpv_282968 - TRANQUILLINA Diassaria

TRANQUILLINA Diassaria XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 195.00 €
Type : Diassaria
Date: c. 242-244
Mint name / Town : Hadrianopolis, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,44 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré des côtés à l’usure régulière. Beau portrait de Tranquilline. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé à droite (L).
Obverse legend : SABI TRANKULLEINA SEB (Sabinia Trankulleina sebasth).
Obverse translation : (Sabina Tranquilline augusta).

Reverse


Reverse description : Aigle debout de face, les ailes ouvertes, la tête tournée à gauche.
Reverse legend : ADRIA-NOPOLEIT(WN).
Reverse translation : (d’Hadrianopolis).

Commentary


Trous de centrage visibles de chaque côté. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire représenté dans le Varbonov, II, p. 335, n° 4094.

Historical background


TRANQUILLINA

(+c.244)

Wife of Gordian III - Augusta

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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