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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8217985, member: 85693&quot;]I am bringing up another Golden Oldie Thread because I was so thrilled to find a [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] die match to one of my own.&nbsp; Definitely obverse match to the OP, probably reverse too.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Mine (with a bunch of attribution stuff I filched from RC - thanks RC <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).&nbsp; Note the obverse flan flaw running through the legends at 10 o&#039;clock as noted in the OP: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1442692[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Gordian III&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Æ Pentassarion</b></p><p><b>(238-244 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Moesia Inferior, Odessos</b></p><p>AVT K M ANT ΓOΡΔIANOC CE(B) TΡANKVΛ|ΛEINA, laureate, draped and cuirassed</p><p>bust of Gordian right, facing diademed and draped bust of Tranquillina left /</p><p>OΔHCCEIT[ΩN], Serapis standing left, raising hand and holding sceptre, E in left field.</p><p><b>Attribution: </b></p><p>RPC VII.2 (unassigned ID 28565); AMNG I 1696; Moushmov 1696; Varbanov 4599; SNRIS Odessus 15 (a9).</p><p>(10.38 grams / 26 mm)</p><p>eBay Feb. 2022&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Mine and the OP: </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1442691[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>If I may be so bold, I would suggest a slight tweak to the OP attribution - the obverse flan flaw goes through the ANT part of the obverse legend (which is still visible, just obscured some).&nbsp; The ANT is omitted in the OP attribution.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Not in the original thread (because not available in 2017, I presume), I found that RPC Online has this as RPC VII.2, — (unassigned; ID 28565) with 18 examples.&nbsp; I found seven of these are obverse die matches with the obverse flan flaw, several of these are reverse die matches too (some of these were already noted in the OP).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/28565" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/28565" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/28565</a></p><p><br /></p><p>That flawed obverse die apparently had a long life.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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