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ID number: BIRBI-R1627 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Gordian III; Rome Denomination: Sestertius Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: AD 241-244 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 3.10 Weight (g): 20.40 Axis (degrees): 315.00 Provenance: Haines 1440. W. S. Lincoln, 1932. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Gordian, wearing laurel wreath, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Jupiter, nude, standing frontally, head facing l., holding long sceptre in r. and thunderbolt in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AV6 (Imperator Gordian Pius Felix Augustus). Reverse: IOVIS STATOR S C (To Jove, who Upholds; S C - Translation Disputed).
Bibliography: RIC IV 299
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