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bpv_522750 - GORDIAN I AFRICANUS Tétradrachme

GORDIAN I AFRICANUS Tétradrachme AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 1 500.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: janvier - février
Date: 238
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : billon
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 11,80 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de style fin avec un remarquable buste ! Joli revers. Patine foncée avec de petites concrétions vertes
Catalogue references :
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 : Athéna assise à gauche, tenant une victoire de la main droite et un sceptre 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..

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