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My son and I googled like crazy and we think this is an ancient gordian coin. We are unable to find any coin resembling the "tails" side. Any ideas? I've never posted to a forum before so I hope the picture comes through ok   *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. ***Edited by Alnismom
11/13/2012 11:17 pm
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Moderator
 United States
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To give us a little more information to work with, can you also post a picture of the "face" of the coin?  (hint: the files can't have the same name when posting) |
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New Member
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I really want to, and as tech savvy as I thought I was, I am struggling with the image uploader on this site. I will keep trying or have someone else do it for me
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I moved your post to the Ancient forum so our experts can help you out. Welcome to the CCF!
swcoin.ecrater.com
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Pillar of the Community
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Welcome. Your coin is Gordian III as you indicated. I have it attributed as: RIC 15, Gordian III AR Antoninianus. Late 239 AD. IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG, radiate, draped bust right / P M TR P II COS P P, Fides standing front with standard & scepter. Here is the link to the wildwinds page: http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear...tml#RIC_0015 |
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United States
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 to the community This is supposed to be an Antoninianus of the emperor Gordian III 238-244 AD, but I have some doubts that it is genuine. The letters on the obverse legend look odd to me the S is missing the bottom half. The letters in CAES are miss shaped, the overall appearance just doesn't look right. Lets see what others have to say. The legend is supposed to read IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG/ PM TR P II COS PP. The figure I believe is Fides standing holding a standard and scepter. It is RIV IViii 15. |
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I must agree with echizento. The overall appearance of the coin is odd. Take a look at the coin in the link I provided earlier and you will see what we are taslking about. Where did you get the coin and can you provide with weight and measurement?
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The style looks a bit wrong to me as well. I think it is a fake, unfortunately.
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Yep, it's a replica, I'm afraid; the peculiar fashion of the copying errors (like "GOPPIANVS" instead of "GORDIANVS" and the silhouette-like featureless reverse figure) makes me think it was originally copied from an old photograph or line drawing of a coin, rather than a cast copy of an actual coin. It's not the first time one of these replicas has cropped up; here's an old thread with one just like it, with the same "GOPPIANVS" and same die crack spilling off the deformed C in COS on the reverse. The even older thread with one is here. Given how common they seem to be, I'd assume they were mass-produced as some kind of Reader's Digest (or similar) giveaway. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Yeah...this coin is a match to the one Sap linked to. I'm sorry for the bad news. |
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