RPC VII.2, 549

 

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Coin type
Volume VII.2
Number 549
Province Macedonia
Region Macedonia
City Edessa
Reign Gordian III
Person (obv.) Gordian III (Augustus)
Issue Gordian III, radiate bust
Obverse inscription ΑΥ Κ Μ ΑΝ(Τ)(Ω) ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ
Edition Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Ἀντώ(νιος) Γορδιανός
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordian
Obverse design radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian III, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΕΔΕϹϹΕΩΝ
Edition Ἐδεσσέων
Translation of the Edessenes
Reverse design Tyche standing left, holding sceptre and crowning Roma seated left on shield, holding Nike and parazonium
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 24 mm
Average weight 8.29 g
Axis 1, 2, 6, 7, 9
Reference Papaefthymiou 51–5
Specimens 12 (2 in the core collections)
Note The sceptre held by Tyche is sometimes hardly visible or missing. Some of the rev. dies read ƐΔƐϹϹΑΙΩΝ (Papaefthymiou 51-2 and 54).
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: 18273088, Alter Bestand
2 2     NY: 1944.100.10402 SNG 264
3 3     Milan: 7276
4 4     Sofia: 8510
5 5     Warsaw: 57825
6 6     ✸ CGT coll.
7 7     Gorny & Mosch 108, 3 Apr. 2001, lot 1471
8 8     Lanz 60, 11 June 1992, lot 767
9 9     Münzzentrum 167, 4 Sept. 2013, lot 195 = Müller 65, 18 June 1990, lot 209
10 10     Peus 369, 31 Oct. 2001, lot 1293
11 11     Private coll.
12 12     Solidus EA 11, 14 Jan. 2017, lot 175