brm_905290 - GORDIAN III Antoninien
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Price : 80.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 243-244
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 450 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,66 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (B4).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Gordianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L'empereur Gordien pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FORTVNA REDVX.
Reverse description : Fortuna (la Fortune) drapée, assise à gauche sur un siège, tenant de la main droite un gouvernail et de la gauche, une corne d'abondance.
Reverse translation : “Fortuna Redux”, (Le retour de la Fortune).
Commentary
Cuirasse formée d’écailles. Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Breastplate made of scales. This type seems rarer than general works suggest.
Breastplate made of scales. 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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