RPC VII.2, 552

 

Image of specimen #9

 

Coin type
Volume VII.2
Number 552
Province Macedonia
Region Macedonia
City Edessa
Reign Gordian III
Person (obv.) Tranquillina (Augusta)
Issue Tranquillina
Obverse inscription ϹΑΒΝΙΑ ΤΡΑΝΚΥΛΛΕΙΝΑ ΑΥΓ
Nominative Sabinia Tranquillina
Obverse design diademed and draped bust of Tranquillina, right
Reverse inscription ΕΔΕϹϹΕΩΝ
Reverse design Tyche standing left, holding sceptre and crowning Roma seated left on shield, holding Nike and parazonium
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Axis 1, 2, 7, 12
Reference Papaefthymiou 5–6
Specimens 12 (1 in the core collections)
Note The sceptre held by Tyche is sometimes hardly visible or missing.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 718
2 2     Harvard: 1984.205.145
3 3     Argenor 5, 29 Apr. 2002, lot 133
4 4     CGT coll. = Pecunem Gitbud & Naumann 15, 6 Apr. 2014, lot 367
5 5     CNG EA 207, 25 Mar. 2009, lot 289
6 6     CNG EA 415, 28 Feb. 2018, lot 369 = Gorny & Mosch 170, 13 Oct. 2008, lot 1726
7 7     Gemini VII, 9 Jan. 2011, lot 813
8 8     Lanz 112, 25 Nov. 2002, lot 801
9 9     ✸ Lanz 150, 13 Dec. 2010, lot 375
10 10     Münzzentrum Rheinland 123, 8 Sept. 2004, lot 180 = Münzzentrum Rheinland 114, 8 Jan. 2003, lot 203 = Grün 36, 16 May 2002, lot 299
11 11     Peus 400, 22 Apr. 2010, lot 545 = Lanz 60, 11 June 1992, lot 776
12 12     Peus 400, 22 Apr. 2010, lot 546