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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2612411, member: 19463&quot;]I was hoping someone would post a Gordian III with Balbinus features. I do not have one but CNG showed this one a decade ago:</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=91451" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=91451" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=91451</a></p><p><img src="https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/enlarged/73000967.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>This is odd since there are coins of Gordian III as Caesar that are decidedly Gordian looking so the mint knew his face.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]571767[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>One remotely possible answer (AKA guess) involves my theory that portraits may have been roughly cut by apprentices saving the time of the master cutters for finish work.&nbsp; This allows the mint to have a few dies in progress that were intended to be the heavier faced Balbinus that were completed as Gordian faces.&nbsp; I see the mint as doing anything they can to avoid trashing a die in which hours had been invested just because a ruler died.&nbsp; Recycling a die with legends might be more work than it would be worth but retouching a portrait in progress when the news arrived seems reasonable.&nbsp; In some cases we have a good explanation from the new man being out of town and no portrait bust was available to copy.&nbsp; Each case must be evaluated based on its own situation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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