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Here's a Tranquillina I got in a group lot of Provincial coins.

Region, City: Thrace, Deultum
Obv.: SAB TRANQVILLINA AVG - Diademed and draped bust right
Rev.: COL FL PAC DEVLT - Athena standing left, holding shield and spear
Mint: (241-244 AD)
Wt./Size/Axis: 7.98g / 23mm / -
References:

• Varbanov 2354
• Mionnet Supp. II 567

Acquisition: Naville Numismatics Online Auction NN Live 54 #208 (part of) 15-Dec-2019




Next - another coin with a centration dimple

 

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Troas. Alexandreia. Caracalla AD 198-217.
Bronze Æ

25 mm., 7,16 g.

M AVRE-L ANTONI, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Caracalla right / COL AVG // TROA, horse grazing right. Bellinger, Troy A283, A300-01 var. (legends).

Next - horse without rider.

 

next: carthago

 

Carthage


Carthage
AE Trishekel
Tanit
Horse
220-215 BCE 2nd Punic War
30mm 17.6g

Next: Mithradates

 

PONTOS. Amisos AE29 Time of Mithradates VI Eupator, ca 105-90 or 90-85 BC
Helmeted head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with Pegasos
Rev: AMI - ΣOY - Perseus standing left, holding harpa and head of Medusa, whose decapitated body lies at his feet; monogram to left and right.
SNG BM Black Sea 1169-72; HGC 7, 238.
18,30 g, 30 mm

Next - another hero from mythology

 

next: another hero from mythology

 

Ionia, Smyrna. Tranquillina AE22 Diassarion. Herakles
Obv: ΦOYΡI TΡANKYIΛΛEINA C, draped bust right, wearing stephane.
Rev: CMYΡNAIΩN Γ NEΩKOΡΩN, Herakles, naked, standing left, holding kantharos, lion-skin and club.
241-244 AD.

Next: A poet

 

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Next: another non-Olympic Greek god or another coin from Karia.

 

Caria:


Plotina, c. AD 105-122.
Roman provincial Æ 20.0 mm, 5.43 g, 6 h.
Caria, Tabae, AD 105-122.
Obv: ΠΛΩΤЄΙΝ CЄΒΑCΤΗ, diademed and draped bust, right, hair in plait behind
Rev: ΤΑΒΗ-ΝΩΝ, stag standing right.
Refs: RPC III 2292; BMC 18. 170, 79; SNG von Aulock 2720; SNG München 455-6; Robert 143.
Notes: Reverse die match to SNG von Aulock 2720. "Plate" coin at Austin College's Virtual Catalog of Roman Coins.

Next: Plotina.

 

Plotina
Augusta
AR Denarius
Obv.: PLOTINA AVG IMP TRAIANI, Draped bust right.
Rev.: CAES AVG GERMA DAC COS VI PP, Vesta seated left on throne, holding palladium and sceptre.
Ag, 3.57g, 19mm
Ref.: RIC II 730 [R3], CRE 15 [R2]

Next: Her Sister-in-law

 

• Vibia Sabina, the daughter of L. Vibius and Matidia
• Matidia was the daughter of Marciana, Trajan's sister
• So Sabina was Trajan's grand-niece
  
• Plotina was Trajan's wife and probably ~10 years older than Sabina
• Lucius Licinius Sura was a Roman Senator from Spain and 2 time consul, who was friends with Trajan

"Finally, through the good offices of Sura, [Hadrian] was instantly restored to a friendship with Trajan that was closer than ever, and — a marriage advocated by Plotina, but, according to Marius Maximus, little desired by Trajan himself."
- Historia Augusta, Hadrian 2.10


Roman Imperial, Sabina, Augusta, AD 128-136/7, AR Denarius, Rome mint, struck under Hadrian, circa AD 130-133
Obv: SABINA AVGVSTA HADRIANI AVG PP, draped bust right, wearing stephane, hair falling in plait down neck
Rev: Concordia seated left on throne, holding patera with her extended right hand and resting her left arm on statuette of Spes on low cippus; cornucopia below throne
Ref: RIC III 2502

Next: another empress

 

IVLIA SOAEMIAS AVG, bust of Julia Soaemias, hair waved and turned up low at the back, draped, right / VENVS CAELESTIS, Venus, diademed, draped, standing left, holding apple in extended right hand and sceptre in left hand; sometimes in field, star
RIC IV Elagabalus 241

Next - another Julia

 

next: Julia Domna

 

Julia Domna AD 193-217.
Roman provincial AE triassarion, 8.75 gm, 24.4 mm, 6 h.
Moesia Inferior, Tomis, AD 193-211.
Obv: ΙΟVΛΙΑ ΔΟΜΝΑ CE, bare-headed and draped bust, r.
Rev: ΜΗΤ ΠΟΝ ΤΟΜΕΩC, Nike advancing l., holding wreath and palm, retrograde Γ (=3) to left.
Refs: Varbanov 4857; AMNG 2811.

Next: Tomis.

 

Philippus I and Otacila Severa
Moesia Inferior, Tomis
AE 26
Obv.: AVT M IOVΛ ΦIΛIΠΠOC AVΓ M / WTAK CEBH/PA CEB, draped and cuirassed bust of Philipp I and draped bust of Otacilia Severa wearing stephane
Rev.: MHTPOΠ ΠON-TOV TOMEΩC, Hercules standing facing with head left, right hand leaning on club, and lions skin hanging from the left arm.
AE, 12.95g, 25.8x26.8mm
Ref.: Varbanov-, AMNG-

Next: Another city that lies at the black sea

 

Thrace. Mesembria circa 420-320 BC.
Bronze Æ
13 mm, 2,16 g
Crested Corinthian helmet facing / META between four spokes of wheel. SNG BM 272-274; SNG Stancomb 225; Serdica CCCH IX, 14-18; Karayotov II, 47-54; SNG Cop. 653.

Next - helmet

 

Next up; shield

 

next: someone holding a shield

 

Next: a dumpy flan or a triskeles.

 

next: someone running