Live auction - brm_507443 - GORDIAN II AFRICANUS Sesterce

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Estimate :	3 800 €
Price :	2 200 €
Maximum bid :	3 500 €
End of the sale :	04 December 2018 14:29:17
bidders :	2 bidders

Type : Sesterce

Date: 238

Mint name / Town : Roma

Metal : copper

Millesimal fineness : 500 ‰

Diameter : 29,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 18,87 g.

Rarity : R3

Officine: 6e

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait particulier de Gordien II. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine verte

Catalogue references :

C.15 (70f.) - RIC.8 - BMC/RE.31 - RCV.8473 (4500$) - MRK.69 /8 (4500€)

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Philippe Lacoste

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP CAES 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 Cæsar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Africanus Augustus” (L’empereur césar Marc Antoine Gordien l’Africain auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VIRTVS - AVGG/ S|C.

Reverse description : Virtus (la Virilité) casquée, vêtue militairement, debout à gauche, tenant un bouclier de la main droite et une haste renversée de la main gauche.

Reverse translation : “Virtus Augustorum” (La Virilité des augustes).

Commentary

Poids léger. 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..