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Tranquilline - Denier - Rome (241).
Rarissime et magnifique exemplaire.
Exemplaire de la vente NAC 46 du 20 avril 2008, N° 647 et de la vente Tkalec du 17 mai 2010, N° 214 et, de la vente Tkalec du 9 mai 2011, N° 214 et de la vente Triton XV du 3 janvier 2012, N° 1548 et de la vente Chaponnière et Hess-Divo 3 du 21 mai 2012, N° 267.
3.10g - C. 1 var. (antoninien) - RIC 252 - Delbrueck p. 74
Pratiquement FDC – MS
Furia Sabinia Tranquillina, who was the daughter of the Praetorian Prefect (commander of the guard), married - in May AD 241 - Gordian III who had become emperor in July AD 238 at the age of 13. Shortly after the wedding, the emperor and his wife had to leave Rome to fight the Persian king Shapur who was invading Roman Syria, and it has been hypothesised that this coin was issued in the interval. Her Roman coinage, whether in silver or bronze, is extremely rare, which is especially surprising that the coinage of her husband is not rare, and that her father Timesitheus was the de facto ruler until his death in AD 243: unless, to the contrary, it was a strategic choice, to hide from the public the importance of the empress and her father in the management of the empire. Her fate, after the death of her husband in AD 244, is unknown. Henry Cohen in the late 1870s had listed the antoniniani of this type, which he valued at the huge price of 800 francs (ten times the estimate of an aureus of her husband), but the even-rarer denarii were still unknown at his time.
Rarissime et magnifique exemplaire.
Exemplaire de la vente NAC 46 du 20 avril 2008, N° 647 et de la vente Tkalec du 17 mai 2010, N° 214 et, de la vente Tkalec du 9 mai 2011, N° 214 et de la vente Triton XV du 3 janvier 2012, N° 1548 et de la vente Chaponnière et Hess-Divo 3 du 21 mai 2012, N° 267.
3.10g - C. 1 var. (antoninien) - RIC 252 - Delbrueck p. 74
Pratiquement FDC – MS
Furia Sabinia Tranquillina, who was the daughter of the Praetorian Prefect (commander of the guard), married - in May AD 241 - Gordian III who had become emperor in July AD 238 at the age of 13. Shortly after the wedding, the emperor and his wife had to leave Rome to fight the Persian king Shapur who was invading Roman Syria, and it has been hypothesised that this coin was issued in the interval. Her Roman coinage, whether in silver or bronze, is extremely rare, which is especially surprising that the coinage of her husband is not rare, and that her father Timesitheus was the de facto ruler until his death in AD 243: unless, to the contrary, it was a strategic choice, to hide from the public the importance of the empress and her father in the management of the empire. Her fate, after the death of her husband in AD 244, is unknown. Henry Cohen in the late 1870s had listed the antoniniani of this type, which he valued at the huge price of 800 francs (ten times the estimate of an aureus of her husband), but the even-rarer denarii were still unknown at his time.