Watch List notes:

Tranquillina. Drachm; Tranquillina; Caesarea, Cappadocia, Year 4=241 AD, Drachm, 3.14g. Emporium Hamburg 71, 8 May 2014, lot 296 (same dies); bust and legend var. of Sydenham/Malloy-617aa. Obv: CABINIA TPANKVΛΛIN AV Bust draped r., large nest of braids in hair at back, without stephane. Rx: MHTPO KAIC B N around, date ET Δ in exergue, Mt. Argaeus, pellet in upper l. field. Rare silver drachm of Tranquillina at Caesarea. Ganschow-910a = Henseler-1424. Sydenham knew no silver coins for her at Caesarea, but Sydenham-Malloy 617aa cites a drachm for her, a bust and legend variant of our coin, from Leu 18, 5 May 1977, lot 373, and the Burbules Collection. Recently several dozen further specimens have appeared on the market, but the fourteen in CoinArchives Pro with the same bust type and coiffure as ours, plus nine other such specimens that we have had in stock, were all struck from the same obverse die as the present coin, confirming the rarity of Tranquillina's silver at Caesarea.Slight doublestriking on eye of Tranquillina. EF