brm_1045833 - GORDIAN III Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: mi
Date: 240
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 24,05 g.
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Flan centré. Des concrétions. Buste agréable au droit. Patine verte
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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 : LIBERALITAS AVG III.
Reverse description : Liberalitas (la Libéralité) debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant de la main droite un abaque et de la gauche une corne d'abondance.
Reverse translation : “Liberalitas Augusti tertium”, (La troisième Libéralité de l'auguste).
Commentary
Poids lourd.
Heavy weight
Heavy weight
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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