MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Tetrassaria
Date: 241-244
Mint name / Town : Hadrianopolis, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 8,26 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince et très large, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait, légèrement tréflé. Joli revers inhabituel. Très belle patine vert olive foncé, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la liste Blançon 51 (2005), n° 345 (200€)
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AUT K M ANT - GORDIANOS (AUG), (Autokrator Kaisar Markos Antwnios Gordianos Augustos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Antoine Gordien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Gordien III à cheval galopant à droite, le manteau flottant au vent, brandissant une haste de la main droite.
Reverse legend : A-DRIA-NOP-O//LEIT(WN)
Reverse translation : (d’Hadrianopolis).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Trous de centrage visible des deux côtés.
Type 3 ribbons. Fine pteryges under the paludamentum. Centering holes visible on both sides
Type 3 ribbons. Fine pteryges under the paludamentum. Centering holes visible on both sides
Historical background
CARIA - CARIAN ISLANDS - RHODES
(3rd - 2nd century BC)
Rhodes, federal capital, was founded in 408 BC, date of the beginning of coinage. Rhodes was besieged by Demetrius Poliorcetes in 305 BC It was a failure. The Rhodians thanked the protective god by erecting a statue to him at the entrance to the port. Chares of Lindos built the Colossus of Rhodes between 292 and 284 BC It was one of the seven wonders of the world. 33 meters high, it was destroyed by an earthquake in 226 BC. An oracle forbade the Rhodians to rebuild it. Rhodes, an ally of Rome, finally emancipated itself from Seleucid rule after 188 BC.
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