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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4600081, member: 57495"]Me too! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Thanks to the database, I've finally managed to find some other examples of this rough but very rare Gordian III bronze of Tyre. It's not published in the standard references, but RPC online shows <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/6533" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/6533" rel="nofollow">three other specimens</a>, one in the</p><p>Bibliothèque nationale de France, and two in the Israel Museum. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1139283[/ATTACH]<b>GORDIAN III</b></p><p>AE Chalkous. 8.55g, 24.4mm. PHOENCIA, Tyre, AD 238-244. Rouvier -; BMC Phoenicia -; SNG Cop -; RPC Online VII.2, - (<a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/6533" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/6533" rel="nofollow">unassigned; ID 6533</a>). O: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: COL [TYR] MET / N C F, Temple (of the Phoenician Koinon?) seen in perspective, with star in pediment, steps to right; at right, murex shell.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4600081, member: 57495"]Me too! :) Thanks to the database, I've finally managed to find some other examples of this rough but very rare Gordian III bronze of Tyre. It's not published in the standard references, but RPC online shows [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/6533']three other specimens[/URL], one in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and two in the Israel Museum. [ATTACH=full]1139283[/ATTACH][B]GORDIAN III[/B] AE Chalkous. 8.55g, 24.4mm. PHOENCIA, Tyre, AD 238-244. Rouvier -; BMC Phoenicia -; SNG Cop -; RPC Online VII.2, - ([URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/6533']unassigned; ID 6533[/URL]). O: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: COL [TYR] MET / N C F, Temple (of the Phoenician Koinon?) seen in perspective, with star in pediment, steps to right; at right, murex shell.[/QUOTE]
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