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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 4010561, member: 75937"]It's Gordian III. There is a PIV....AVG at the tail end of the obverse inscription and the only possibilities for a youthful, beardless bust with PIVS in the inscription would be Severus Alexander, who used IMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVG, and Gordian III, who used IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG. There's clearly too much space for it to read PIVSAVG, so it must be PIVSFELAVG -- Gordian. And it just LOOKS like him.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse type is a guess, based upon the process of elimination. It appears to be one of the P M TR P reverse legends. The combination of obverse legend "...PIVSFELAVG" and "P M TR P ..." narrows it down considerably. It pretty much has to be RIC 305a or 306a, with Gordian standing right with transverse spear and globe (depends on if it's TR P III or IIII).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1055187[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1055186[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 4010561, member: 75937"]It's Gordian III. There is a PIV....AVG at the tail end of the obverse inscription and the only possibilities for a youthful, beardless bust with PIVS in the inscription would be Severus Alexander, who used IMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVG, and Gordian III, who used IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG. There's clearly too much space for it to read PIVSAVG, so it must be PIVSFELAVG -- Gordian. And it just LOOKS like him. The reverse type is a guess, based upon the process of elimination. It appears to be one of the P M TR P reverse legends. The combination of obverse legend "...PIVSFELAVG" and "P M TR P ..." narrows it down considerably. It pretty much has to be RIC 305a or 306a, with Gordian standing right with transverse spear and globe (depends on if it's TR P III or IIII). [ATTACH=full]1055187[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1055186[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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