I won one coin - lost on another via a snipe. First coin of 2019 for me!
Thanks for referring to some of the original sources...not sure about that last point but who knows, in that case I am in trouble...;)
It looks like a crystallized denarius - lots of time in the ground.
Nice new coin for your collection.
A few sources on the web confirm Gordian II had less hair than Gordian I, though it's hard to determine the origin of this opinion...
Gordian III AR antoninianus... [ATTACH]
Interestingly the Egyptians always had plenty of gold (from the mines in the eastern desert and Nubia), which they controlled sporadically but...
I also suggest getting a later period Antoninianus to exemplify a silver-washed coin, though some folles of Diocletian and the tetrarchs also had...
Pretty interesting and it reminds me of a Probus portrait, but encircled by Arabic legends with another Arabic legend on the reverse. The Zengids...
Gordian I has more hair than Gordian II, Gordian II has a major receding hairline..;)
Interesting coin. I figured out the provenance if you are interested in knowing - otherwise have fun attributing it!!!
Excellent coin @GregH ! Congrats on finding it.
Two of these appear to be Gordian II (to my relatively untrained eye) but I may be wrong.
Dad Magnus Maximus...AE2, emperor raising turreted woman [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Nice article. Thank you.
That's pretty cool @panzerman
Great coin @IdesOfMarch01 - visually it looks to be almost perfect.
Here's my denarius, FIDES MILITVM, which was true up until the siege of Aquilaea when his troops became impatient with the siege and its lack of...
Great coin @jamesicus
I'm thinking of Gordian I and II. Gordian II had a receding hairline which is very evident on his sestertii.
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