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Message:: [QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3439471, member: 99456"][USER=100655]@Silver Eagle[/USER] great first Roman - welcome to ancient coins and congratulations on an excellent first coin!  As a fan of roman republican coins, I can fully support your plan for "next coin".   I also share your interest in coins as a window to history. Your Gordian IOVI STATORI is a revival of a type, first issued 100 years earlier by Antoninus Pius in AD 140-144.  Gordian and Timisitheus, his father-in law and praetorian prefect, left Rome for the campaign against Persia in January 241.  From RIC IViii p10: “Jupiter Stator is invoked to stay the Roman armies, hard pressed by the Persians”.  Here's another coin from about the same time period from the mint at Antioch: [ATTACH=full]913284[/ATTACH] Gordian III AR AntoninianusObv: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG - Radiate bust right, cuirassed.Rev: ORIENS AVG - Sol standing left, right hand raised in salute and left hand holding out a globe.Mint: Antioch AD 243-244Size: 4.97g 22.5mmRef: RIC IViii, 213 IOVI STATORI appears on the coins of 9 emperors:Antoninus Pius, Severus Alexander, Gordianus III, Valerianus, Gallienus, Claudius Gothicus, Aurelianus, Florianus, Probus.  As Jupiter Stator is the god who averts panic and defeat and there were perhaps many occasions for emperors to invoke stabilizing support from Jupiter during the 3rd century AD.[/QUOTE]