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brm_322724 - GORDIAN III Sesterce

GORDIAN III Sesterce VF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 80.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: fin 240-début 243
Date: 240-243
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 18,14 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier, bien centré. Joli revers. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Michel Galleazzi

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Gordianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Gordien pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : LAETITIA AVG N/ S|C.
Reverse description : Lætitia (la Joie) debout à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une ancre de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Lætitia Augusti Nostri”, (La Joie de notre auguste).

Commentary


Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum.

Historical background


GORDIAN III

(02-03/238-03/244)

Augustus

Gordian III is the grandson of Gordian I and the nephew of Gordian II, ephemeral emperors of the year 238. At the request of the people of Rome, he is chosen as Caesar by Balbin and Pupian and succeeds them after their assassinations. Emperor at 13, married at 16, killed at 19, this is how the life of this young man could be summed up, victim of the appetites of Philippe the Arab, new prefect of the praetorium.

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