RPC VII.2, 538

 

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Coin type
Volume VII.2
Number 538
Province Macedonia
Region Macedonia
City Edessa
Reign Gordian III
Person (obv.) Gordian III (Augustus)
Issue Gordian III, laureate bust
Obverse inscription ΑΤ Κ Μ ΤΝΙΟϹ (sic) ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian III, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΕΔΕϹϹΑΙΩΝ
Reverse design Tyche standing left, holding sceptre and crowning Roma seated left on cuirass, holding Nike and parazonium
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 23 mm
Axis 5, 7
Reference Papaefthymiou 15–16, 18–19
Specimens 5 (1 in the core collections)
Note Papaefthymiou 15 mentions a coin with ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Cop SNG 170
2 2     Harvard: 1984.205.144
3 3     B. Michaux coll.
4 4     ✸ CGT coll. = Naville Numismatics 15, 7 June 2015, lot 115 = Lanz 20 Apr. 1981, lot 769
5 5     Savoca 11 Blue, 27 Oct. 2018, lot 1025