Live auction - brm_422333 - GORDIAN II AFRICANUS Denier

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Estimate :	4 200 €
Price :	3 160 €
Maximum bid :	3 370 €
End of the sale :	14 March 2017 14:50:39
bidders :	4 bidders

Type : Denier

Date: 238

Mint name / Town : Roma

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰

Diameter : 19,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 3,45 g.

Rarity : R3

Officine: 6e

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur flan ovale et irrégulier, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Très beau portrait, bien identifié, de Gordien II. Revers de haut relief, finement détaillé. Très jolie patine grise superficielle avec reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine

Catalogue references :

C.5 (120f.) - RIC.1 - BMC/RE.19 pl. 42 - RCV.8465 (3000$) - MRK.69 /1 (2500€) - HCC.- - RSC.5

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP M ANT GORDIANVS AFR AVG.

Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien II d’Afrique à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).

Obverse translation : “Imperator Marcus Antonius Gordianus Africanus Augustus” (L’empereur Marc Antoine Gordien l’Africain auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : PROVIDENTIA AVGG.

Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) drapée, debout à gauche, les jambes croisées, le coude gauche appuyé sur une colonne, tenant de la main droite un bâton placé au-dessus d’un globe et de la main gauche une corne d’abondance.

Reverse translation : “Providentia Augustorum” (La Providence des augustes).

Commentary

Rubans de type 3.

Historical background

GORDIAN II 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 only lasted 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 is killed in battle. Hearing the news, his father commits suicide..