brm_309818 - GORDIAN III Antoninien
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Price : 50.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 05-12/238
Date: 238
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 450 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,36 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait initial de Gordien III. Usure plus nette au revers. Patine grise
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Antoine Gordien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTO-RIA AVG.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) allant à gauche, tenant une palme de la main gauche et brandissant une couronne dans la droite.
Reverse translation : "Victoria Augusti", (La Victoire de l'auguste).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum.
Type 3 ribbons. Fine pterygia under the paludamentum
Type 3 ribbons. Fine pterygia under the paludamentum
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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