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Coin ID #13646

Germe (AD 238-244) AE 43 - Gordian III

Gordian III, 238-244 AD. AE43 - Medallion (40.20g). Strategos Aelius Aristonicus. AYT K M ANT ΓOPΔIANOC AYΓ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ЄΠI CTPA AIΛ APICTONЄIKOY / ΓЄPMHNΩN, Herakles seated left on rock draped with lion's skin, holding club set on ground with left hand and pointing to ground (?) with right hand; on his right knee, small figure of Artemis facing, head right, drawing arrow from quiver with right Hand; to left, Apollo standing right, holding plectrum in right hand and lyre in left; to right, city-goddess standing left, holding cornucopiae in left hand and crowning Herakles with a wreath with her right. Minor smoothing, otherwise, VF.

File information
Filename:2477338l.jpg
City/Mint name:Germe
Keywords:roman / bronze
References:BMC -; Ehling -; SNG Leypold -; SNG München -; SNG von Aulock -; CNG Elec. Auc. 326, (5/2014), lot 282 (this coin, cleaned since)
Valuation:Auctiones eAuction 50 (9/2016), lot 118 (CHF 1400 + comm)
Photo courtesy of:Auctiones GmbH - www.auctiones.ch
Filesize:250 KiB
Date added:Feb 15, 2017
Dimensions:976 x 501 pixels
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