Gemini III, January 9th, 2007



                  Lot # 434 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$750 / Price 
                  Realized: US$1550 
                  Tranquillina, wife of Gordian III. Bronze 32 mm 



             



            Tranquillina, wife of Gordian III. (). Bronze 32 mm (16.63 gm). 
            Pisidia, Cremna. SAB TRANQVILLNAM AVGVSTAM, draped bust right 
            wearing stephane, crescent behind shoulders / COL IVL AVG FELICIS 
            CREMNENSIVM, Roma seated left, holding globe and cornucopia. Von 
            Aulock, Pisidien, 1404-1408, pl. 31 (all same dies). As this coin 
            has Latin legends, it could fill the nearly impossible spot in a 
            collection of a Tranquillina sestertius. Brown patina. Extremely 
            fine. 

            Provincial coins of Tranquillina in sestertius size and with Latin 
            legends seem to be very rare and may come only from Cremna. Cohen, 
            pp. 90-92, knew no sestertius-sized colonial coins of Tranquillina 
            at all, only middle bronzes and small bronzes. In his corpus of the 
            provincial coins of Pisidia, von Aulock found eleven 
            sestertius-sized coins of Tranquillina at Cremna, all from the same 
            obverse die as our coin, and with two different reverse types. 




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  ... Lot 434 sold for high bid of $1550 [ $1782.5, or approx 1377.8725 EUR, 909.075 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 


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