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



                  Lot # 480 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$400 / Price 
                  Realized: US$400 
                  Gordian III, Lot of 4 antoniniani, Antioch mint, second 
                  series. 



             
             
             
             



            Gordian III, Lot of 4 antoniniani, Antioch mint, second series. 
            (238-244 AD). . IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, bust radiate, draped, 
            cuirassed right / FIDES MILITVM, Fides standing left, wearing crown 
            of towers and holding two standards. A reverse-type variant of Bland 
            66 and RIC 209b. A rare variety with this early bust type, recorded 
            by Bland in only four specimens, and apparently unique with Fides 
            wearing a mural crown. (b) As last, 4.08 gm, same mint, date, 
            obverse legend, and bust type, but reverse MARTI PACIFERO, Mars 
            advancing left, holding branch, shield, and spear. Bland 70 (only 3 
            specimens: BM ex Dorchester hoard, Vienna, and Paris). RIC 212b. 
            Cohen 162. Rare with this earlier bust type. (c) As last two, 3.77 
            gm, same mint, date, and obverse legend, but bust radiate, cuirassed 
            only, and with reverse P M TR P V COS II P P, Hercules attacking 
            right with club and bow, nude apart from lion-skin hanging over left 
            shoulder. Bland 75 (15 specimens). RIC 206e (R). Cohen 264. Scarce, 
            only five specimens in Dorchester hoard. (d) Overweight silver 
            antoninianus, 7.54 gm, Antioch, 242–244 AD (second series), obverse 
            as last coin, reverse FORTVNA REDVX, Fortuna seated left, holding 
            rudder and cornucopia. An overweight specimen of Bland 78, RIC 210e, 
            and Cohen 98. A weight for the record book: of the 666 antoniniani 
            of Gordian’s second Antioch issue whose weights were registered by 
            Bland, the heaviest weighed 6.46 grams, only four others exceeded 
            six grams, and the average weight was 4.27 grams. FOUR COINS IN LOT. 
            Very fine. 

            All four ex Triton V, 2002, George His Collection, part of lot 2062. 
            The third coin also ex Bonham’s 7, 29 March 1982, lot 418. 




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  ... Lot 480 sold for high bid of $400 [ $460, or approx 317.4 EUR, 234.6 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 

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