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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 3589742, member: 80783&quot;]Hi Ras,</p><p>the Künker coin you mentioned is a misattributed Sestertius of Gordian I. There are other auction houses that made the same mistake (see Jean Elsen 12.03.2016, # 260 = <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4172535" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4172535" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4172535</a> ; HD Rauch 01.10.2004, # 529 =&nbsp; <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=190454" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=190454" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=190454</a> for this type alone) of attributing portraits with the hair in front of the laurel wreath worn (or tooled) away to Gordian II, despite them otherwise having the features of Gordian I or even being die matches to his coins. Victoria it is one of the common reverses for Sestertii of Gordian I (46 cited by Banti) but very rare for Gordian II (3 cited by Banti).</p><p>David Sear has confirmed that there is just this single obverse die for the Victoria Sestertii of Gordian II and that he knows of no other than the seven specimens of RIC 7 that I pictured above (Dupriez 07.04.2013 =Heritage 07.01.2019 = Banti 6; CNG 15.09.2010, CNG 15.06.2005; Spink 30.11.2006 = Heritage 10.04.2014; British Museum = RIC 7; Naples Museum = BMCRE 29; Peus 22.04.2010).</p><p><br /></p><p>This would suggest that there must be dozens of misattributed Sestertii of the Gordiani Africani in the hands of collectors which would make a scientific die study a useful thing to do (like it has been done for Pertinax and Didius Julianus by Woodward and for Macrinus by Curtis Clay).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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