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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 24675220, member: 99456&quot;]Reviving this thread to add another prize crown - this time from Gordian III from Odessus which is today the city of Varna in Bulgaria.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1573874[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Roman Provincial Coin, Moesia Inferior, Odessus, Gordian III</b> (238-244), AE 9.83g 26.5mm, Pentassarion</p><p><b>Obv:</b> AVT M ANT ΓOPΔIANOC AVΓ, draped busts of Gordian, laureate and cuirassed, and Serapis, wearing calathus and with cornucopia over shoulder, facing one another</p><p><b>Rev:</b> OΔHCCEITΩN, Prize crown, containing two palm fronds and inscribed ΔAPZΔΛEIA; E (mark of value) in exergue</p><p><b>Ref:</b> RPC <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1499" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/7.2/1499" rel="nofollow">VII.2, 1499</a>; AMNG 2372; Varbanov 4527.</p><p><br /></p><p>more on the meaning of the inscription on the prize crown posted in my notes:</p><p><a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/the-great-god-darzalas-serapis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/the-great-god-darzalas-serapis" rel="nofollow">https://www.sullacoins.com/post/the-great-god-darzalas-serapis</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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