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Type : Sesterce
Date: 240-243
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Millesimal fineness : 450 ‰
Diameter : 29,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 20,68 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais et bien centré. Joli buste. Patine marron et verte
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Gordianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Gordien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AETER-NITATI AVG/ S|C.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) debout de face tourné à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Æternitati Augusti”, (L’Éternité de l’auguste).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3.
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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