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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8275061, member: 128351&quot;][ATTACH=full]1461013[/ATTACH] </p><p>Gordian III and Tranquillina, Singara (Mesopotamia)</p><p>Obv.: AVTOK K M AT ΓOPΔIANON CAB TPANKVΛΛINA CЄB, confronted busts of Gordian III and Tranquillina</p><p>Rev.: AVP CЄΠ K-OΛ CINΓAPA, Tyche of Singara veiled, wearing turreted crown, seated left on rock folding branch, river-god swimming at her feet, sagittarius above.</p><p>The Sagittarius above the Tyche is the emblem of the Legio I Parthica. Singara was taken from the Parthian Empire by Septimius Severus who settled there the newly created Legio I Parthica and gave the city colonial status. It remained a Roman outpost in Mesopotamia until the Sassanian Empire stormed the city in 360. Roman Singara minted a set of bronze coins under Gordian III only, very probably during the Roman-Persian war of 243-244.</p><p>In Arabic the city name is Sinjar. The Sinjar mint issued much later bronze fulus under the Ummayyad (early 8th c.) and in the 12th c., under the Zanjid atabegs, nice bronze dirhams. The city is now Sinjar in NW Iraq, famous for the atrocities committed there by ISIS against the Yazidi population. It was retaken by he Kurds and the US-led coalition in 2015. Its political status is still disputed, the surviving Yazidi considering claiming some kind of independence. </p><p><br /></p><p>Next up: Shapur I[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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