RPC VII.1, 533.1

 

Image of specimen #7

 

Coin type
Volume VII.1
Number 533.1
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Miletus
Region Ionia
City Magnesia ad Maeandrum
Reign Gordian III
Person (obv.) Gordian III (Augustus)
Magistrate Aelius Demonikos, son of Prothous (grammateus)
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 ΓΡ ΔΗΜΟΝΕΙΚΟΥ ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ
Reverse design ram advancing left towards pyre from which emerge branches
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 29 mm
Axis 12
Reference Schultz 447–8
Specimens 7 (3 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–2: same pair of dies. 3–4: same pair of dies. 1–2: same obv. die as 513/1, 514.2/2, 517A/1, 518/1–3, 519/1–3, 521/1, 522/1–2, 524.1/1, 4–5, 525/1, 531/1–2, 535/1–3, 537/1–2, 540A/1–3, 548/1, 551/3, 552/1–4, 553/1–2. 3–4, 8–9: 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), 442.2/4 (Metropolis), 443/1–5 (Metropolis), 452.1/1–3 (Metropolis), 452.2/1–11 (Metropolis), 454.2/3 (Metropolis), 454.5/1–4 (Metropolis), 511.1/1, 514A/1, 545.1/1–2, 547/1, 550/1–2. 1–4: same rev. die as 527/1–4, 533.2/5–6, 545.1/1–2, 545.2/3.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1971.279.32
2 2     Falghera 2126
3 3     B: Fox
4 4     B: I-B
7 7     ✸ C. Rhodes coll. = CNG EA 329, 25 June 2014, lot 262
8 8     Savoca Numismatik GmbH & Co. KG 13, 12 Mar. 2017, lot 361
9 9     Izmir SNG 400