Authenticating coins of the ‘Roman emperor’ Sponsian
Fig 2
Coins of the wider assemblage, and their typology.
Note that no image exists of the lost Type 1 of Alexander the Great. A) Type 2 of Plautius, Specimen 2.4 in Table 1, greyscale photograph reproduced from Ref. [3], scale approximate; B) Type 3 of Gordian III, Specimen 3.2 in Table 1, GLAHM:29596, photographed for this study; C) Type 4 of Philip I or Philip II, Specimen 4.4 in Table 1, GLAHM:29820, photographed for this study; D) Type 5 of Sponsian, Specimen 5.3 in Table 1, GLAHM:40333, photographed for this study (same as Fig 1); E) Type 6 of Sponsian, Specimen 6.1 in Table 1, greyscale photograph reproduced from Ref. [28], scale approximate; F) Type 7 of Gordian III, Specimen 7.1 in Table 1, greyscale line drawing reproduced from Ref. [29], scale approximate.