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



                  Lot # 475 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$250 / Price 
                  Realized: US$400 
                  Gordian III, Lot of 3 antoniniani, first Antioch series, 
                  scarce PROVIDENTIA AVG types. 



             
             
             



            Gordian III, Lot of 3 antoniniani, first Antioch series, scarce 
            PROVIDENTIA AVG types. (238-244 AD). . Comprising (a) Silver 
            antoninianus, 4.26 gm, Antioch, ca. 239 AD, IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS 
            AVG, bust radiate, draped, cuirassed right / PROVIDENTIA AVG, 
            Providentia standing left, holding wand and scepter, globe at her 
            feet. A rare type, appearing for Gordian III only at Antioch. Bland 
            51 (five specimens, four in Vienna, the fifth in BM ex Dorchester 
            hoard). RIC 194 (Dorchester hoard). Cohen 299 (citing Paris, but 
            Bland found no example there). (b) As last, 5.14 gm, but with 
            reverse PROVIDENTA AVG, Fortuna standing left, holding rudder and 
            cornucopia. Providentia legend, but type of Fortuna; scarce. Bland 
            52/7 (this coin; he also lists eleven others). RIC 196. Cohen 306 
            (Copenhagen, 3 Fr.). (c ) A similar coin, 4.91 gm, but reverse 
            PROVIDENTIA AVG, Annona standing left, holding wheat ears and 
            anchor, modius at feet. Copying a reverse type of Severus Alexander, 
            RIC 252. Rare. Bland 54 (four specimens: Paris, Izmir Museum, two in 
            hoard publications). RIC 199a. Cohen 308 (Paris). THREE COINS IN 
            LOT. Good very fine. 

            All three ex Triton V, 2002, George His Collection, part of lot 
            2062. The second coin also ex NFA XX, 9 March 1988, lot 344; the 
            third also ex Munzzentrum Koln, 7 November 1989, lot 492. 




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  ... Lot 475 sold for high bid of $400 [ $460, or approx 317.4 EUR, 234.6 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 

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