brm_603488 - GORDIAN III Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: mi 239
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 5,03 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan épais, large, centré. Cassure de coin sur l’oeil de Gordien mais très joli buste. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES GORDIANVS PIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié de Gordien III à droite, avec cuirasse et paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Gordianus Pius Augustus" (L’empereur césar Gordien pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROMAE AETERNAE.
Reverse description : Rome, casquée, assise à gauche sur un bouclier les jambes croisées, tenant de la main droite une victoriola et de la gauche un sceptre.
Reverse translation : "Romæ Æternæ" (À Rome éternelle).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Heavy weights. This type seems much rarer than general works suggest.
Heavy weights. This type seems much 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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