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bpv_778327 - GORDIAN III Pentassaria

GORDIAN III Pentassaria AU
175.00 €(Approx. 187.25$ | 150.50£)
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Type : Pentassaria
Date: 238-239
Mint name / Town : Thessalonique, Macédoine
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 11,56 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan centré à l’usure superficielle. Joli revers bien venu à la frappe de haut relief. Belle patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AUT K M ANTW GORDIANOS.
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Antoine Gordien).

Reverse


Reverse description : Nikè (Victoria) drapée, marchant à gauche, tenant trois pommes de la main droite, et une sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : QESSALONE-IKEWN NEW.
Reverse translation : (de Thessalonique décorée).

Commentary


Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. trou de centrage visible au revers.

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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