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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2655574, member: 44316&quot;]Here is a Gordian III of Viminacium struck &quot;ANIIII&quot; = year 4 = 242/3 AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]588178[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>28 mm. 21.24 grams.</p><p>IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG</p><p>(a Regular Latin legend, not Greek)</p><p>PMS C O L VIM</p><p>Female standing holding vexilla inscribed &quot;VII&quot; with bull below and &quot;IIII&quot; with lion below for legions 7 (Claudia Pia Fidelis) and 4 (Flavia).</p><p><br /></p><p>After I bought this in 1995 I studied up on Provincial coins with numbered legions mentioned on them. There are not very many and a theme collection would not be large. However, they are infrequently offered. If you want to collect ancient coins, you would have to collect some other theme too while you were are waiting for numbered-legion types to appear.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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