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brm_403538 - GORDIAN III Denier

GORDIAN III Denier AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2022)
Price : 105.00 €
Type : Denier
Date: mi
Date: 241
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 450 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,82 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire avec un magnifique portrait et un joli revers. Patine grise. La monnaie a conservé une partie de son brillant de frappe
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Gordianus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur Gordien pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : DIANA LVCI-FERA.
Reverse description : Diane debout à droite, tenant de ses deux mains une torche transversale enflammée.
Reverse translation : "Diana Lucifera", (Diane qui apporte la lumière).

Commentary


Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges à peine visibles sous le paludamentum.

Historical background


GORDIAN III

(02-03/238-03/244)

Augustus

Gordian III is the grandson of Gordian I and the nephew of Gordian II, ephemeral emperors of the year 238. At the request of the people of Rome, he is chosen as Caesar by Balbin and Pupian and succeeds them after their assassinations. Emperor at 13, married at 16, killed at 19, this is how the life of this young man could be summed up, victim of the appetites of Philippe the Arab, new prefect of the praetorium.

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