Mesopotamia. Singara. Gordian III, with Tranquillina AD 238-244.
Bronze Æ
30mm., 22,11g.
AVTOK K M ANT ΓOPΔIANON CAB TPANKVΛΛINA CEB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian and draped bust of Tranquillina, wearing stephane, facing one another / AVP CЄΠ K-OΛ CINΓA[...], Tyche seated left on rocks, holding branch, above, centaur (Sagittarius) leaping left, shooting bow, to lower left, river god Mygdonius swimming left.
very fine
Cf. SNG Copenhagen 256; cf. BMC Arabia 8-11. From The Tareq Hani collection