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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4537063, member: 57495"]I don't have a well-traveled Corolla, but this Gordie has a more or less permanently place in my wallet. It's covered its share of miles in a variety of planes, trains, automobiles, and ships. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1123361[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>GORDIAN III</b></p><p>AR Antoninianus. 4.61g, 22.3mm. Rome mint, AD 243-244. RIC IV 144. O: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right. R: FORTVNA REDVX, Fortuna seated left, holding rudder set on ground in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand; under seat, wheel.</p><p><br /></p><p>My latest Gordie, from yesterday's Gorny & Mosch auction, is like the OP coin, also a provincial from Hadrianopolis:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1123363[/ATTACH]<b>GORDIAN III</b></p><p>AE27. 1023g, 27mm. THRACE, Hadrianopolis, AD 238-244. Varbanov 3797. O:</p><p>ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R:</p><p>ΑΔΡΙΑΝ / ΟΠΟΛΕΙ / ΤΩN, Cybele, holding drum and scepter, reclining left on lion advancing right; behind lion to right, a Korybas advancing right, head left, holding shield and torch.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4537063, member: 57495"]I don't have a well-traveled Corolla, but this Gordie has a more or less permanently place in my wallet. It's covered its share of miles in a variety of planes, trains, automobiles, and ships. [ATTACH=full]1123361[/ATTACH] [B]GORDIAN III[/B] AR Antoninianus. 4.61g, 22.3mm. Rome mint, AD 243-244. RIC IV 144. O: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right. R: FORTVNA REDVX, Fortuna seated left, holding rudder set on ground in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand; under seat, wheel. My latest Gordie, from yesterday's Gorny & Mosch auction, is like the OP coin, also a provincial from Hadrianopolis: [ATTACH=full]1123363[/ATTACH][B]GORDIAN III[/B] AE27. 1023g, 27mm. THRACE, Hadrianopolis, AD 238-244. Varbanov 3797. O: ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: ΑΔΡΙΑΝ / ΟΠΟΛΕΙ / ΤΩN, Cybele, holding drum and scepter, reclining left on lion advancing right; behind lion to right, a Korybas advancing right, head left, holding shield and torch.[/QUOTE]
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