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



                  Lot # 479 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$250 / Price 
                  Realized: US$250 
                  Gordian III, Lot of 3 antoniniani, Antioch mint, with 
                  engraving errors in their legends. 



             
             
             



            Gordian III, Lot of 3 antoniniani, Antioch mint, with engraving 
            errors in their legends. (238-244 AD). . Comprising (a) Silver 
            antoninianus, 4.08 gm, Antioch, ca. 239 AD, IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS 
            AVG, bust radiate, draped, cuirassed right / LIBEPALITAS (sic) AVG, 
            Libertas standing left, holding cap and cornucopia. Greek rho 
            instead of Latin R in reverse legend. Bland 18/39 (this coin). 
            Legend variant of RIC 187a and Cohen 126. Rare: only one other 
            specimen, in Tulln hoard, and struck from the same dies, known to 
            Bland. See also lot 473 above. (b) As last, but 3.56 gm, and with 
            reverse PO[MA]E (sic) AETERNAE, Roma seated left above shield, 
            holding Victory and scepter. Rho for R in reverse legend as on last 
            coin. Bland 56/15 (this coin). RIC 200 note (Vienna). Legend variant 
            of Cohen 312. Scarce error: only three other specimens known to 
            Bland, one in BM and two in Vienna. (c ) Silver antoninianus, 5.74 
            gm, Antioch, 242–244 AD (second series), IMP GORIANVS (sic) PIVS FEL 
            AVG, bust radiate, cuirassed right / MARTI PACIFERO, Mars advancing 
            left, holding branch, shield, and spear. The D omitted from 
            Gordian’s name in the obverse legend. Legend variant of Bland 71, 
            RIC 212e, and Cohen 162. Apparently the only known coin showing this 
            error in Gordian III’s second issue at Antioch. THREE COINS IN LOT. 
            Very fine. 

            All three ex Triton V, 2002, George His Collection, part of lot 
            2062. The second coin also ex Sternberg XIII, 18 November 1983, lot 
            900. 




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  ... Lot 479 sold for high bid of $250 [ $287.5, or approx 198.375 EUR, 146.625 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 

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