brm_386328 - GORDIAN III Sesterce
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Price : 115.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 115.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: mi
Date: 239
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 15,69 g.
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré. Joli portrait et beau revers. Patine verte
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Antoine Gordien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LIBERALITAS AVG II.
Reverse description : Liberalitas (la Libéralité) debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant de la main droite un abaque et de la gauche une double corne d'abondance.
Reverse translation : "Liberalitas Augusti iterum", (La deuxième Libéralité de l'auguste).
Commentary
Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
This type seems rarer than general works suggest.
This type seems rarer than general works suggest.
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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