RPC VII.1, 157

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume VII.1
Number 157
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Pergamum
Region Mysia
City Germe
Reign Gordian III
Person (obv.) Gordian III (Augustus) ; Tranquillina (Augusta)
Magistrate Ael Aristoneikos (strategos)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΦΟΥΡ ϹΑ ΤΡΑΝΚΥΛΛ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Augustus (et) Furia Tranquillina Augusta
Obverse design confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, draped and cuirassed, r., and of Tranquillina, diademed and draped, l.
Reverse inscription ƐΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΑΙΛ ΑΡΙϹΤΟΝƐΙΚΟΥ ΓƐΡΜΗΝΩ
Reverse design Cybele seated, l., holding patera and sceptre, resting arm on tympanum; lion on either side of her
Metal Æ
Average diameter 38 mm
Axis 6
Reference Ehling 305
Specimens 3 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–2: same pair of dies. 1–2: same rev. die as 161/1.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ NY: 1944.100.42929
2 2     Hirsch 13, 15 May 1905, lot 3306
3 3     M&M AG, list 431, 1981, lot 175