E-auction 7-1466 - bpv_244605 - GORDIANUS III and TRANQUILLINA Tetrassaria
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| Estimate : | 125 € |
| Price : | 68 € |
| Maximum bid : | 70 € |
| End of the sale : | 16 May 2013 17:34:00 |
| bidders : | 11 bidders |
Type : Tetrassaria
Date: 241-244
Mint name / Town : Anchialus, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 13,16 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan légèrement ovale, légèrement décentré au droit avec une faiblesse de frappe sur la légende. Beaux portraits. Joli revers de style fin et de haut relief. Belle patine vert olive 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. SAB.// TRANKULL/INA, (Autokrator Kaisar Markos Antonios Gordianos Augustos Sabeina Trankullina)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Antoine Gordien auguste Sabine Tranquilline).
Reverse
Reverse description : Homonoia (la Concorde) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : OULPIANWN A-GCIALEWN, (Oulpianwn Agcialewn
Reverse translation : (Ulpia Anchialus).
Commentary
Trou de centrage des deux côtés. Portrait de Tranquilline particulièrement expressif.
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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