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Moesia inferior, Markianopolis, Gordian III & Serapis, HrJ 6.37.35.2 var. (rev. only)
Gordian III, AD 238-244
AE 28, 13.50g, 27.62mm, 225°
struck under governor Tullius Menophilus
obv. AVT KM ANT GORDIANOC
below AVG
Confronted busts of Gordian III, draped and cuirassed(?), r., and Serapis,
draped, wearing kalathos, l.
rev. VP MHNOFILOV - MARKIANOPO / LITWN (WN ligate)
Aequitas/Nemesis, in long girded double chiton, wearing kalathos, stg. l., holding in l. arm
measuring-rod and puff of garment and in r. hand scales; wheel at feet l.
in r. field E (for pentassarion)
ref. a) not in AMNG:
rev. AMNG I/1, 1154 (depiction)
legend not listed
obv. AMNG I/1, 1149 (for Asklepios)
b) cf. Varbanov (eng.) 2001 (cites AMNG 1154)
c) not in Hristova/Jekov
rev. No.6.37.35.2 var. (has ITWN in ex.)
obv. f.e. No.6.37.20.4 (for Asklepios)
c) cf. Varbanov (eng.) 2001 (cites AMNG 1154)
very rare, VF, black-green patina

Nemesis here is wearing a kalathos!
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