GORDIAN III CILICIA AE39 WITH PRIZE CROWN – PUBLISHED EX LEVANTE SPECIMEN – VF ROMAN PROVINCIAL COIN (Inv. 21046)

$950.00

21046. CILICIA. TARSUS. PROVINCIAL ISSUE OF GORDIAN III, AD 238–244.
Bronze Denomination, 24.81 g, 39 mm.
Obv. [AΥ]Τ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡ[ΔΙ]ΑΝΟC CЄΒ / Π–Π, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian III to right. Rev. TAPCOY MHT–POΠOΛЄWC, two palm–branches in prize–crown inscribed CEYHPEIA and placed on table with three lion–shaped legs, AMKBΓ in exergue.
RPC VII.2, 3105.10 (this coin illustrated); SNG Levante 1138 (this coin illustrated); SNG Paris 1662 (same obverse die).
Ex CNG 66, 5/19/2004, lot 1210.
About VF, a popular type published and illustrated in an important Sylloge. Extremely rare, with only one other inferior specimen on CoinArchives and 11 in RPC.