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Æ35 - Sabinia Tranquilliana ΠΟΔΑΛΙωΤωΝ
| Issuer | Podalia |
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| Year | 241-244 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Tranquillina, diademed, facing right, her hair elaborately waved and gathered at the nape. The effigy is rendered in a naturalistic provincial style typical of Lycian civic coinage of the mid-third century AD. A circular Greek legend surrounds the portrait within a beaded border, identifying the empress by her full imperial titulature. |
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| Obverse lettering | ϹΑΒ ΤΡΑΝΚΥΛΛΕΙΝΑ ϹΕ (Translation: Sabinia Tranquillina Augusta) |
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Sabinia Tranquillina was the wife of Gordian III, married in 241 AD in what was likely a political arrangement consolidating the influence of her father, the praetorian prefect Timesitheus, who effectively ran the empire during Gordian's minority. Podalia was a small Lycian city whose civic bronze issues under this marriage are rare enough that the BCD specimen cited here passed through auction as a highlight of that collection. Timesitheus died on campaign against Persia in 243, and Gordian himself was dead by early 244 — the window for coins bearing Tranquillina's name was narrow.