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| Issuer | Ephesus Mint (Ionia) |
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| Year | 238-244 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Gordian III facing right, depicted three-quarter from the front. The imperial effigy displays military attire with paludamentum over the cuirass, rendered in the provincial style typical of Ephesian civic coinage of the mid-third century AD. The Greek imperial titulature legend runs around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Tyche, the personification of Fortune, standing to the left in full figure, clad in a long chiton and himation. She holds in her extended right hand the distinctive cult statue of Artemis Ephesia, the multi-breasted goddess of Ephesus, and in her left hand a cornucopia symbolising abundance. The Greek civic legend is disposed in the field around the figure, identifying the issuing city and the deity depicted. |
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