RPC VII.2, 1512

 

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Coin type
Volume VII.2
Number 1512
Province Moesia Inferior
Region Moesia
City Odessus
Reign Gordian III
Person (obv.) Gordian III (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Μ(Α) ΑΝΤΩΝΙ(ΟϹ) ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus
Obverse design confronted busts of Gordian III, laureate, draped and cuirassed, right, seen from front, and Sarapis, draped, left, with cornucopia behind him
Reverse inscription ΟΔΗϹϹΕΙΤΩΝ, Ε
Reverse design Cybele seated left, holding patera and resting on tympanum; at feet, a lion on each side of the throne
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 28 mm
Axis 1, 12
Reference AMNG 2351
Specimens 6 (2 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: 18276147, Löbb. AMNG 2351/1, pl. XVIII 11 rev.
2 2     ✸ V: GR 28622 AMNG 2351/2
3 3     Milan: M.0.9.32860 R. Martini, 'Monete di Anchialus, Odessus e Pautalia nelle Civiche Raccolte di Milano', in Festschrift Schönert-Geiss, pp. 449–66, no. II.39
4 4     Müller 57, 27 Feb. 1988, lot 118 = Müller 55, 12 June 1987, lot 144
5 5     Peus 403, 27 Apr. 2011, lot 273
6 6     Solidus EA 12, 17 Feb. 2017, lot 255 (part of) = Pecunem Gitbud & Naumann 12, 2 Feb. 2014, lot 322