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Dryantilla. Augusta (Usurper), AD 260. Antoninianus (23mm, 3.76 g, 7h). Carnuntum mint. Struck under Regalianus. Draped bust right, wearing stephane, set on crescent / Sol, radiate, standing facing, head left, raising right hand, holding globe in left. RIC IV –; MIR 43, –; Göbl, Regalianus und Dryantilla –; RSC –. Toned, roughness. Good Fine. Overstruck on an antoninianus of Gordian III.
From the S & S Collection. Ex New York Sale XI (11 January 2006), lot 328; Lanz 26 (1983), lot 846.
Sulpicia Dryantilla was the wife of of the usurper Regalianus. Little is known about her other than that she was the daughter of Sulpicius Pollio, an officer and senator under Caracalla, and Claudia Ammiana Dryantilla, a possible descendent of the Lycian senator Claudius Dryantianus. Shortly after her husband's usurpation, she was given the title of Augusta. She was most likely killed along with her husband following his defeat.
From the S & S Collection. Ex New York Sale XI (11 January 2006), lot 328; Lanz 26 (1983), lot 846.
Sulpicia Dryantilla was the wife of of the usurper Regalianus. Little is known about her other than that she was the daughter of Sulpicius Pollio, an officer and senator under Caracalla, and Claudia Ammiana Dryantilla, a possible descendent of the Lycian senator Claudius Dryantianus. Shortly after her husband's usurpation, she was given the title of Augusta. She was most likely killed along with her husband following his defeat.