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bpv_403322 - GORDIAN III Hexassaria

GORDIAN III Hexassaria AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 195.00 €
Type : Hexassaria
Date: 241-244
Mint name / Town : Hadrianopolis, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 13,35 g.
Rarity : R1
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A2).
Obverse legend : AUT K M ANT GORDIANOS (AUG), (Autokrator Kaisar Markos Antwnios Gordianos Augustos).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Antoine Gordien auguste).

Reverse


Reverse description : Apollon nu debout à gauche, tenant une branche de laurier de la main droite et un arc de la main gauche ; derrière un serpent enroulé autour d’un trépied.
Reverse legend : AD-RIANOPO-LEITWN.
Reverse translation : (d’Hadrianopolis).

Commentary


Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire reproduit dans l’ouvrage de Varbonov, II, p. 306, n° 3711. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Trou de centrage des deux côtés.

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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