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Gemini, LLC > Auction VIAuction date: 10 January 2010
Lot number: 659

Lot description:

Gordian III and Tranquillina. . AE 27, 4½ Assaria, 12.06g. Moesia Inferior, Tomis. Obv: AV[T K M] ANT ΓOPΔIANOC AVΓ CE around, TPANKVΛ / ΛEINA in two lines in exergue, Bust of Gordian right, laureate, draped, cuirassed, facing bust of Tranquillina left, draped and wearing diadem. Rx: [M]HTPO ΠO - N - TOV TO around, MEΩC in exergue, Hades-Serapis seated left, kalathos on head, extending right hand over three-headed Cerberus at his feet, scepter in left hand, value mark Δ and sideways V in two lines in right field. Interesting type, and from the same reverse die as the three specimens of which Regling in AMNG had reproductions; possibly struck from this die only. AMNG 3513 (6 specimens), pl. XIII.21 (reverse only, same die).Varbanov 5689. VF.

Ex Dr. Stephen Gerson Collection.

Estimate: US$150