Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-R1552 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Gordian II; Rome Denomination: Denarius Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 238 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 1.95 Weight (g): 3.56 Axis (degrees): 135.00 Provenance: Haines 1929. A. H. Baldwin, 1935. |
|
Description: Obverse: Head of Gordian II, wearing laurel wreath and beard, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Victory, winged and draped, advancing facing l., holding wreath in extended r. and holding palm in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP M ANT GORDIANVS AFR AVG (Imperator Marcus Antonius Gordianus Africanus Augustus). Reverse: VICTO-RIA AV-GG (Victory of the Emperors).
Bibliography: RIC IV 2
|