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Live starting : Type : Denier
Date: février - mai
Date: 238
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 450 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,30 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Superbe monnaie sur un flan large, centré des deux côtés. Buste finement détaillé. Joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : M ANT GORDIANVS CAES.
Obverse description : Buste drapé, tête nue de Gordien III à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°21).
Obverse translation : “Marcus Antonius Gordianus Cæsar” (Marc Antoine Gordien césar).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PIETAS AVGG.
Reverse description : Instruments pontificaux : lituus, couteau à sacrifice, patère, vase (capis), simpulum et aspersoir.
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augustorum” (La Piété des augustes) .
Historical background
GORDIAN III
(02-03/238-03/244)
Caesar
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.
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