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VII.1, 269A
Image of specimen #1
Coin type
URI
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.1/269A
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Volume
VII.1
Number
269A
Province
Asia
Subprovince
Conventus of Philadelphia
Region
Lydia
City
Philadelphia
Reign
Gordian III
Person (obv.)
Gordian III (Augustus)
Magistrate
Aurelius Marcus (first archon for the second time)
Alliance with
Smyrna
Obverse inscription
ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ
Nominative
Imperator Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus
Obverse design
laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian III, r., seen from rear
Reverse inscription
[ΦΛ ΦΙ]ΛΑ ΝƐΩΚ
ΚΑΙ
ϹΜΥΡ Γ ΝƐ [ ] [Ο]ΜΟ Α ƐΠΙ ΑΥΡ ΜΑΡΚΟΥ ΑΡΧ
Reverse design
Tyche of Philadelphia and Amazon Smyrna standing facing each other; between them, lighted altar; Tyche holding cult statue of Artemis Ephesia and sceptre, Amazon holding figure of the two Nemeses, double axe, pelta and chlamys
Metal
Æ
Average diameter
32 mm
Axis
5, 6
Specimens
2 (0 in the core collections)
Specimens of this coin type
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Diameter
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1
1
✸
Bern: N/98.15
Ph. Mottet, ‘Eine unedierte Homonoia-Prägung von Philadelphia in Lydien aus der Zeit des Gordians III.’,
SM
198 (2000), pp. 25–26
32
13.67
5
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2
2
Tire: 2749
SNG 456
32
15.22
6
diam. given as 23 mm
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