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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 5196215, member: 91820&quot;][ATTACH=full]1214512[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1214513[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Gordian III Dupondius RIC 300(c)</p><p>9.71 Grams 26mm</p><p>Obverse Inscription: IMP GORDIANUS PIUS FEL AVG</p><p>Reverse Inscription: LAETITIA AVGN</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; This article continues with selected coins from my collection, which I have been working on for over 20 years.&nbsp; It has been a labor of love - lots of time and effort.&nbsp; Although I limit it to sestertii, I do have a few minor bronzes.&nbsp; And I have always like dupondii - I like the way the celators are able to show the details of the hair under the crown - Flavian dupondii are particularly beautiful as are the dupondii of others - Hadrian, Trajan, Severus Alexander - heck they are all nice!</p><p><br /></p><p>The opportunity to buy this coin came along about a decade or so so ago and I jumped on it - the portrait is incredible and the flat strike on the reverse just doesn&#039;t take anything way from the beauty of the brown patina. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am again pressed for time but would love to hear from those who know more about the coins of Gordian III - especially what the &quot;N&quot; is in the inscription.&nbsp; Tomorrow I will put up a very unusual unlisted sestertius of my second favorite emperor - Marcus Aurelius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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