Lot 3230
Tranquillina. Silver Denarius (3.0 g), Augusta, AD 241-244. Rome, under Gordian III. SABINIA TRANQVILLINA AVG, diademed and draped bust right. Reverse : CONCORDIA AVGG, Concordia seated left, holding patera and double cornucopiae. RIC 252; RSC 1a. Virtually as struck, nicely toned. Extremely rare and probably the finest of very few specimens known. Nearly Mint State.
Tranquillina, the daughter of the Praetorian Prefect Timesitheus, married Gordian III in AD 241. The couple had no children, and while it is assumed that she survived her husband, her fate after his death is not known. All of Tranquillina's imperial coinage is, inexplicably, extremely rare.
Estimated Value $15,000 - 18,000.
Ex The Barry Feirstein Collection (NAC, 16 May, 2007), 153; earlier privately purchased from Harlan J. Berk.
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