RPC VII.1, 442.2

 

Image of specimen #4

 

Coin type
Volume VII.1
Number 442.2
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Ephesus
Region Ionia
City Metropolis
Reign Gordian III
Person (obv.) Gordian III (Augustus)
Magistrate Aurelius Bassus II (strategos for the second time)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian III, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΑΥΡ ΒΑϹϹΟΥ Β ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Reverse design Cybele seated, left, holding patera and resting arm on tympanum; lion on either side of her
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 29 mm
Axis 6
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 3: same obv. die as 410.2/8–16 (Ephesus), 410.4/20 (Ephesus), 411.1/2, 9–13, 15–16 (Ephesus), 411.2/1, 3–5, 7–8, 14 (Ephesus), 412.3/16–25 (Ephesus), 414.3/3–5 (Ephesus), 414.4/6–8 (Ephesus), 416.2/9–26 (Ephesus), 416.3/27 (Ephesus), 416.4/28 (Ephesus), 416.5/29 (Ephesus), 442.1/1–2, 444/1, 454.1/1–2, 454.3/4–5. 4: same obv. die as 364.1/1–4 (Ephesus), 364.2/5–10 (Ephesus), 365/1–4 (Ephesus), 366/1–3 (Ephesus), 367/1–2 (Ephesus), 368.1/1–2 (Ephesus), 368.2/3 (Ephesus), 370/1–2 (Ephesus), 371/1–6, 8 (Ephesus), 372/1–2 (Ephesus), 443/1–5, 452.1/1–3, 452.2/1–11, 454.2/3, 454.5/1–4, 511.1/1 (Magnesia ad Maeandrum), 514A/1 (Magnesia ad Maeandrum), 533.1/3–4, 8–9 (Magnesia ad Maeandrum), 545.1/1–2 (Magnesia ad Maeandrum), 547/1 (Magnesia ad Maeandrum), 550/1–2 (Magnesia ad Maeandrum). 3–4: same rev. die as 452.1/5.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
3 3     V-ON SNG Leypold I, 685
4 4     ✸ Brussels