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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3280236, member: 19463"]This photo rotates the obverse 1/8 turn to favor the Gordian face.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]867094[/ATTACH]</p><p>To me the face is obvious but there is some legend here and there if you wiggle the coin under the light. On the reverse, I was able to convince myself I could see letters AET which could be either of two Gordian as reverses. Since only one of them was used with the obverse legend I see here with PIV<b>SF</b>EL lined up with the nose, I decided which I thought it was. I am not saying that I'm right on the reverse but that face is Gordian III. I wanted to buy an as to match but asses are harder to find so I bought a sestertius. The layout is very similar. [ATTACH=full]867097[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]867100[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]867095[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I could be wrong. I don't think I am.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3280236, member: 19463"]This photo rotates the obverse 1/8 turn to favor the Gordian face. [ATTACH=full]867094[/ATTACH] To me the face is obvious but there is some legend here and there if you wiggle the coin under the light. On the reverse, I was able to convince myself I could see letters AET which could be either of two Gordian as reverses. Since only one of them was used with the obverse legend I see here with PIV[B]SF[/B]EL lined up with the nose, I decided which I thought it was. I am not saying that I'm right on the reverse but that face is Gordian III. I wanted to buy an as to match but asses are harder to find so I bought a sestertius. The layout is very similar. [ATTACH=full]867097[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]867100[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]867095[/ATTACH] I could be wrong. I don't think I am.[/QUOTE]
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