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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Hadrianopolis| > RP37474
Gordian III, 29 July 238 - 25 February 244 A.D., Hadrianopolis, Thrace
|Hadrianopolis|, |Gordian| |III,| |29| |July| |238| |-| |25| |February| |244| |A.D.,| |Hadrianopolis,| |Thrace|, Nemesis, the balancer of life, is the goddess of revenge, the avenger of crimes and punisher of wicked doers. She distributes fortune, good or bad, in due proportion to each according to what is deserved. She holds a lorum, a long scarf worn by Roman magistrates, to symbolize her authority as judge, and a cubit rule to measure each man's just deserts. The wheel of fate rests against her side.
RP37474. Bronze AE 27, Varbanov II 3825 - 7 var. (obv. legend), gVF, choice portrait, Hadrianopolis (Edirne, Turkey) mint, weight 12.317g, maximum diameter 28.0mm, die axis 45o, obverse AYT K M ANT ΓOPΔIANOC AYΓ, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse AΔPIANOΠOΛEITΩN, Nemesis standing left, cubit rule in right hand, scepter in left hand, wheel at feet left; scarce; SOLD










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