Record ID: SUR-90AECA
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman provincial coin of Gordian III (AD 238-244), dating to the period AD 242-243 (Reece period 12). P M S COL VIM / AN IIII reverse type depicting a female figure wearing a chiton, extending her two hands over the heads of a bull and a lion that stand to her right and left. Mint of Viminacium (Moesia Superior). As SNG Budapest II, pp. 54-57, cf. no. 215 passim. This is the first example of a large bronze issue from Viminacium recorded through the PAS. It is a very unusual coin for Britain, although an increasing number of Roman provincial issues are being recorded,…
Created on: Monday 27th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 18th October 2017
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Record ID: NLM-AB07D7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Roman coin (as?) of Gordian III (AD 238-244), dating to the period AD 238-244 (Reece period 11). NIKAI reverse type depicting the legend between four standards, two Capricorns above the central two standards. Mint of Nicaea (Bithynia). Cf. SNG Österreich Sammlung Leypold, Band I: Pontus-Lydien, pp. 38-39, no. 189. This is an Eastern mint coin, probably an as or similar denomination, of Gordian III, the first of this type to be recorded through the PAS and very unusual for Britain. The appearance of the surfaces of the coin might suggest possible deposition in a wet …
Created on: Thursday 16th March 2017
Last updated: Monday 26th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melton Ross', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-966081
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy coin of Gordian III (AD 238-244). Reece period 12. N-I-K-A-I // EΩN reverse, the first letters dispersed amongst four standards. Minted in Nicaea. Zwicker (1996, 1073) Dimensions: diameter: 19.81 mm; weight: 3.20g.
Created on: Wednesday 18th March 2015
Last updated: Monday 16th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Horkesley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FASAM-0B7712
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy coin of Gordian III (AD 238-44), struck at Nicopolis-ad-Istrum (in Moesia Inferior). The obverse legend is illegible, but the emperor is identified fromt he style of bust. The reverse inscription records the piece as coming from Nicopolis. The reverse type might be unpublished, but we will not know until a better example of this issue is found (either from a hoard or as a site-find, or in a publication that has not been consulted), but probably shows Hermes standing left.
Created on: Friday 28th February 2014
Last updated: Friday 10th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kirkham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-CA26C6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin of Gordian III, 238-44 Nicaea mint (in North-West Turkey: region of Bithynia) Obv. [ ]AV](T?)...; Radiate bust right Rev. NIKAIE/ON; Three standards Reference: SNG Copenhagen Bithynia c.f. no. 526.
Created on: Wednesday 6th October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 7th October 2010
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Record ID: SWYOR-8EAA26
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman coin; a coin of Gordian III (238 - 244), struck at a Greek mint, probably Philippopolis in Thrace. It has a diameter of 15.9mm, a thickness of 1.7mm and a weight of 1.91g. See http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear/s2523.html for a similar obverse and reverse but from a different mint. A published example of this coin has not yet been found, but there are so many varieties of Roman and Greek Provincial coins, that this is not unusual.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd September 2009
Last updated: Thursday 15th November 2018
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