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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24732796, member: 26430&quot;]Gordian III is a nice one to collect because there are many interesting types, often very affordable while being very attractive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two of my favorites. One Imperial and one Provincial. (Maybe I&#039;ll post more&nbsp; G.III favorites if the thread keeps going...)</p><p><br /></p><p>My best patina on any coin is this Sestertius, part of my &quot;captives&quot; collection (under Victory&#039;s shield), ex George His Collection (who had probably the most important private collection of Gordian III in recent generations), then A. Lang (<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9492718" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9492718" rel="nofollow">Leu 12, 1386</a>):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582169[/ATTACH]</p><p>I wasn&#039;t satisfied with any single photo&#039;s ability to capture the dark, glossy patina, so I made a strip of images:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582167[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite Provincial Gordian III is this Alexandrian Tetradrachm ex Dattari Collection. I love the similarity between the Helios and Gordian&#039;s portraits. If you remove the spikey hat and their hair, you would think it&#039;s the same person (possibly the point):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582170[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Dattari&#039;s pencil rubbings of this coin, made some time c. 1901:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582171[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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