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| Gemini, LLC > Auction VI | Auction date: 10 January 2010 |
| Lot number: 748 | |
| Lot description: Gordian III. 238-244 AD. AE 25, 11.42g. Samaria, Nysa-Scythopolis, Year 304 = 240/1 AD. Obv: AVT K M [ANT ΓOP]ΔIAN[OC CE] Bust laureate, cuirassed right, seen from front, Medusa head on breastplate, fold of cloak on front shoulder. Rx: NVC C - K - V[ΘO IEPAC] around, date ΔT in exergue, Tyche-Nysa, wearing turreted crown, seated right on high-backed chair, nursing the infant Dionysos. Rare bust variety. Barkay 79b. Bust variety of Spijkerman 58 and BM 6-10. VF. Ex Dr. Stephen Gerson Collection. This city was named after the nurse of Dionysos, Nysa, who was said to have been buried there. The local Tyche thus here becomes Nysa, shown suckling her infant charge. Estimate: US$150 |  |
