Roman Provincial Coin Type struck under Gordian III from Tarsus in Cilicia Joe Shephard supported by a fine-tuned OpenAI GPT-4o mini model Jonathan Setzer supported by a fine-tuned OpenAI GPT-4o mini model John Fell OUP Research Fund Jerome Mairat director and editor RPC https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/3241/epidoc Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence Metal Coin type Tarsus 36.916667, 34.9 Gordian III

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Data sourced from Roman Provincial Coinage Online: RPC Online (https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk). A complete list of the epidoc files available can be found at https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/epidoc.

 Ancient Greek coin Roman Provincial Coin Type 2024-09-02 15:35:58 Obverse of the coin illustrating this coin type on RPC online: see for more details Reverse of the coin illustrating this coin type on RPC online: see for more details
Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Ἀντώνιος Γορδιανὸς Σεβαστὸς πατὴρ πατρίδος
αʹ μεγίστης καλλίστης γʹ βʹ Ταρσοῦ μητροπόλεως
Emperor Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Augustus, father of the fatherland
first, the greatest, the most beautiful, of the 3 (eparchies), twice (neocorate), of Tarsus, metropolis

radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian III, right, seen from rear

double crown of the Cilicarch, decorated with two imperial busts in the outer side, and five imperial busts and two Nikai in the inner side, on table with three straight legs

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/3241