331, Lot: 218. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MESOPOTAMIA, Singara. Gordian III, with Tranquillina. AD 238-244. Æ (33mm, 23.31 g, 11h). Confronted busts of Gordian right, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Tranquillina left, draped and wearing stephane / Tyche seated left on rocks, holding branch; above, centaur (Sagittarius) leaping left, shooting bow; to lower left, half-length figure of river-god Mygdonius swimming left. SNG Copenhagen 256; BMC 8-11. VF, earthen green patina.