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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4251827, member: 110350&quot;]I recently bought my very first Roman Provincial (a/k/a Greek Imperial) coin, for a reason I&#039;m sure many of you would understand: I realized that if I were ever going to be able to obtain a coin showing Tranquillina -- to go with the other 18 Roman empresses (and mothers and grandmothers of emperors and empresses) whose coins I already have so far -- it would have to be a Roman Provincial coin.&nbsp; So I chose this one out of several available (even limiting myself to North American sellers, as I&#039;ve decided to do for the time being to avoid potential postal delays from Europe):</p><p><br /></p><p>Gordian III with Tranquillina, AE 26 mm., 241-244 AD, Thracia, Anchialus [Pomorie, Bulgaria]. Obv. Confronted busts of Gordian III right, laureate, draped and cuirassed, and Tranquillina left, draped and wearing stephane; ΑVT Κ M ANT / ΓOPΔIANOC AVΓ clockwise around; CEB TPAN // KVΛΛINA in exergue; border of dots/ Rev. Apollo standing left, holding patera in right hand; left arm resting on column; ΟΥΛΠΙΑΝωΝ / ΑΓXΙΑΛEωΝ&nbsp; clockwise around; border of dots. Moushmov 2939, Varbanov 668 [or 743], AMNG II (Strack, 1912) 656. 11.91 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1084696[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my question: according to the seller, the catalog number for this coin in Varbanov [i.e., the three volumes of&nbsp; Varbanov, Ivan, <i>Greek Imperial Coins And Their Values</i> (Bourgas, 2005 - 2007)] is &quot;Varbanov 743 corr. (obv. legend).&quot;&nbsp; But according to the entry (with photo) for what appears to be the identical coin in the online &quot;Coin Collection of the Greek World and the Eastern Mediterranean,&quot; at <a href="http://www.hourmo.eu/Index_Sylloge.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hourmo.eu/Index_Sylloge.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.hourmo.eu/Index_Sylloge.html</a>, the catalog number is Varbanov 668.&nbsp; See <a href="http://www.hourmo.eu/24_Thrace/Anchialos/3440_Anchialus_Gordianus_III_Tranquillina_AE.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hourmo.eu/24_Thrace/Anchialos/3440_Anchialus_Gordianus_III_Tranquillina_AE.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.hourmo.eu/24_Thrace/Anchialos/3440_Anchialus_Gordianus_III_Tranquillina_AE.html</a>. (The entry also cites Moushmov 2939, and the description of that number in the online version of Moushmov certainly appears to match the coin I purchased, although there&#039;s no photo.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone happen to have a copy of Varbanov, and, if so, could you please take a look to see if 743 or 668 is the correct catalog number?&nbsp; Thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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