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ID number: BIRBI-R1583 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Gordian III; Rome Denomination: Antoninianus Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 240 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.35 Weight (g): 5.17 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 497. Presented by Earle Fox, 1921. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Gordian, wearing radiate crown, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Liberalitas, draped, standing frontally, head facing l., holding abacus in r. and cornucopiae in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP CAES GORDIANVS PIVS AVG (Imperator Caesar Gordian Pius Augustus). Reverse: LIBERALITAS AVG II (Generosity of the Emperor for the Second Time).
Bibliography: RIC IV 53
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