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bpv_522751 - GORDIAN I AFRICANUS Tétradrachme

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Price : 950.00 €

Type : Tétradrachme

Date: janvier - février

Date: 238

Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte

Metal : billon

Diameter : 22,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 12,87 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Joli revers. Patine marron foncé

Catalogue references :

BMC.1829 - Milne3300 - Curtis - MRKA.- - AC.3349 /7-1 - D.4662 - MRMA.68 /14 (800€) - RCV.8463 (550€)

Predigree :

Exemplaire provenant de la collection ENP

Obverse

Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*).

Obverse legend : A K M AN GORDIANOS SEM AF EUSE, (Autokrator Kaisar Markos Antonios Gordianos Sem AfrikanonsEusebios Sebastos).

Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Antonius Gordien pieux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : LA.

Reverse description : Tyché (Fortuna) (la Fortune) coiffée du calathos, drapée, tenant un gouvernail de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.

Reverse translation : (an 1).

Historical background

GORDIAN I AFRICANUS

(01-02/238)

Africa went into rebellion at the very beginning of the year 238. Gordian, governor of the Proconsular, took the lead in the revolt and immediately associated his son with the same name with power, by having him proclaimed Augustus. The Gordians are recognized by the Senate which hates Maximin I Thrace. But the reign of African emperors lasts only twenty-one days. The governor of Numidia, loyal to Maximin, enters Proconsulary with the III Augusta legion and crushes the ill-prepared troops of Gordian II. He finds death in battle. Hearing the news, his father commits suicide..

GORDIAN I AFRICANUS Sesterce AU/XF

3200.00 €

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