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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: GORDIAN III, AD 238-244. AR Denarius.
Obverse: IMP. GORDIANVS PIVS FEL. AVG., His laureated and draped bust right.
Reverse: P. M. TR. P. III COS. P. P., Gordian on horseback, standing to the left holding sceptre and raising his right hand.
Reference: RIC 81; Sear 2473. Grade: EF.
Comments: For more information, read the "Gordian III" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on the Gordians see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.