From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008.



                  Lot # 481 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$300 / Price 
                  Realized: US$350 
                  Gordian III, Lot of 3 antoniniani, Antioch mint, second 
                  series. 



             
             
             



            Gordian III, Lot of 3 antoniniani, Antioch mint, second series. 
            (238-244 AD). . Comprising (a) Silver antoninianus, 5.03 gm, 
            Antioch, 242 AD, IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, bust radiate, draped, 
            cuirassed right / IOVI CONSERVATORI, Jupiter standing left, holding 
            thunderbolt and scepter. Bland 68 (only one specimen, Criel hoard). 
            RIC 136 (under Rome). Cohen 103 (no source, 3 Fr., doesn’t specify 
            the bust type). (b) A second specimen of the same coin, 4.61 gm, but 
            from different dies. (c ) A third specimen, 4.64 gm, from the same 
            reverse die as (b), but with obverse bust radiate, cuirassed only, 
            not radiate, draped, and cuirassed. Bland 69 (five specimens). RIC 
            211e (R, Vienna). Cohen 103 (but see above). THREE COINS IN LOT. 
            Extremely fine. 

            All three ex Triton V, 2002, George His Collection, part of lots 
            2061 and 2062. The second coin, acquired from Robert Kutcher in 
            1983, is also ex Smyrna hoard, Samuel K. Eddy, The Minting of 
            Antoniniani A.D. 238–249 and the Smyrna Hoard, no. 652 (not 
            illustrated). 

            IOVI CONSERVATORI is one of the rarest reverse types of Gordian’s 
            second Antioch series, recorded by Bland in only one specimen with 
            bust draped and cuirassed, and in five specimens with bust cuirassed 
            only, those five coins all coming from a single reverse die and two 
            obverse dies. The His Collection adds a second and third specimen of 
            Bland 68, from two new die pairs, and a sixth specimen of Bland 69, 
            also from a new die pair, but sharing its reverse die with one of 
            the His specimens of Bland 68. 




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