Extremely Rare Tranquillina Denarius

Triton XXI, Lot: 823. Estimate $5000. Sold for $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Tranquillina. Augusta, AD 241-244. AR Denarius (19mm, 2.54 g, 8h). Rome mint. Special emission, mid AD 243. SABINIA TRANQVILLINA AVG, draped bust right, wearing stephane / CONCORDIA AVGG, Concordia seated left on throne, holding patera in right hand and cradling double cornucopia in left arm. RIC IV 252; RSC 1a; Biaggi 2395; Hunter 1. EF, underlying luster, minor weakness to strike on reverse. Extremely rare.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 59 (4 April 2011), lot 1106.