Another Gordian III and Tranquillina marriage commemorative!

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I can't get enough of these Gordy and Tranquillina marriage issues. This one was a steal! It's got Nemesis, too. I've developed an interest in that goddess lately. I like how the celator ran out of room for the reverse inscription and continued it vertically in the right field:


Gordian III, AD 238-244, and Tranquillina, AD 241-244
Roman provincial Æ pentassarion, 12.34 g, 26.2 mm, 2 h
Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis, legate Tertullius, AD 243-244
Obv: ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC ΑVΓ CЄΒ ΤΡΑΝΚVΛ-ΛЄΙΝΑ, confronted busts
Rev: VΠ ΤΕΡΤVΛΛΙΑΝΟC ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛI-ΤΩΝ, Nemesis-Aequitas standing left, holding scales and cornucopiae; wheel at feet; E in field, left
Refs: Varbanov 2052; Moushmov 834; AMNG (Pick) 1185; SNG Cop 260.

 

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Nice one @Roman Collector


GORDIAN III
AE26
OBVERSE: ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡ∆ΙΑΝΟC ΑΥΓ ΤΡΑΝΚΥΛ/ΛΙΝΑ, confronted busts of Gordian III and Tranquillina
REVERSE: ΟΥΛΠΙΑΝΩΝ ΓΧΙΑΛΕ/ΩΝ, Tyche or Homonoia standing left wearing modius, patera in right, cornucopia in left
Struck at Anchialus, Thrace, 238-244 AD
12.44g, 26mm
AMNG II 675

GORDIAN III
AE 25/26
OBVERSE: AVT K M ANT GORDIANOC AVG CAB CEB TPANKVLEINA, draped busts face to face
REVERSE: OVLPIANWN AGCIALEWN, Zeus standing left, naked to waist, holding thunderbolt and sceptre
Struck at THRACE , Anchialos, 238-244AD
9.7g, 25mm
Moushmov 2945; Varbanov 740-741

 

Nice!

 

Great coin Roman Collector, with fantastic detail especially the reverse, good catch.

 

Very neat... that has to be the earliest depiction of bubblegum blowing on a coin .

 

It's a winner!! The syncretic Nemesis is a nice bonus

 

I really like that new one. The various ways they fit in the long legends fascinates me. My similar coin ran out of space one letter sooner and had to use omega nu as a ligate pair to finish in the space available. My Nemesis carries different attributes so the space available was different. I do not own the catalog on these so I do not know what he had to say or the numbers.

 

That's a lovely coin, @dougsmit . My favorite catalog for these issues is Behrendt Pick's Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands, Vol. 1: Dacien und Moesien (a.k.a. AMNG), available as an inexpensive reprint at amazon or online here (part a) and here (part b). It lists three different reverse dies for yours which divide up the reverse inscription in various ways so as to fit it all on the coin:



The common device on three reverses is described in the listing for 1181 as (my translation): "Nemesis standing left; in the outstretched right hand, a short rod; in the lowered left hand, a bridle; on the ground, a wheel; in left field, E." Two variants of the obverse are used between these three reverse dies: for 1181 and 1182, the obverse as described in the listing for 1173; for 1183, the obverse as described in the listing for 1177.

Yours is 1182. Three specimens are cited for this one: one in the museum in Bucharest, one in Imhoof's collection measuring 28 mm and weighing 10.10 g, and one in the Paris collection. Imhoof was Pick's co-author.



This is the listing for 1173, which describes the obverse die used for your coin:

 

For the majority of issues in AMNG, the obverse type described probably corresponds to a single die, as this examination of the listing for my coin demonstrates:



Note how the catalog describes the block-like C in ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟC and the V-Γ tie which follows. Note how it demonstrates the curved epsilons in CЄΒ and ΛЄΙΝΑ and how it notes the break in the empress's name as ΤΡΑΝΚVΛ-ΛЄΙΝΑ. On the reverse, it describes the vertically oriented ΤΩΝ in the right field. The description of the reverse reads (again, my translation): "Nemesis-Aequitas standing left; in the right hand, a scale; in left arm, a cornucopiae; on the ground, a wheel; in left field, E." It cites the specimen in Berlin, a bronze 28 mm in diameter and weighing 11.21 g.

Here's my coin again for easy comparison to the catalog listing:


Pick's reference is a MUST for collectors of provincial cities from the Balkans.