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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2539808, member: 57495&quot;]I&#039;ve had this Gordian III antoninianus for some time now, but only noticed the minor reverse legend spelling error when I was photographing the coin a few days ago.&nbsp; Instead of LIBERALITAS, the legend is spelled LIBERATAS... easy to see how it may have been missed at the mint.&nbsp; The error is unrecorded in RIC, but I found one other specimen online with the same error and from the same die sold in a <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=434059" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=434059" rel="nofollow">Gemini auction lot</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, it&#039;s just a small boo-boo at the workshop, but I&#039;m pleased with the discovery as I do actually enjoy coins with spelling errors.&nbsp; It also adds some interest to an otherwise common issue of a common ruler.&nbsp; And yes, it&#039;s another pile on thread, so post your coins with legend errors! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544111[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>GORDIAN III</b></p><p>AR Antoninianus. 4.02g, 22mm, Rome mint, early AD 239 - early 240.&nbsp; RIC IV 67 var (rev legend mispelled, error not recorded in RIC, but cf. Gemini Auction IV (8 Jan 2008) Lot 460 for another example from same rev die).&nbsp; O: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right.&nbsp; R: LIBERATAS (sic!) AVG III, Liberalitas standing front, head left, holding counter in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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