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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24620507, member: 26430&quot;]Wow I love that portrait of Maximinus! Very sharp. The first thing I think of with him is that, after Domna and Sev. Alexander were killed for making peace with the Germans, he stole their &quot;German captives-and-trophy&quot; style reverse for Alexandrian Tetradrachms. (The ones below are Sev Alex&#039;s final year, then Max&#039;s 3rd.)</p><p>[ATTACH]1565610[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1565611[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I almost forgot that I have an RIC 5, RSC 357 Gordian III from the first emission which is technically the same issue as [USER=15481]@svessien[/USER] &#039;s and [USER=77226]@Orange Julius[/USER] &#039;s -- but the portrait is so different it may as well be a different type:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1565612[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I always find it fun to compare this first issue VICTORIA AVG Gordian III (Rome 238) to this one struck a few years later and from a different mint (Antioch, 242):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1565614[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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