v13_0580 - GORDIAN III Denier
MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 121.96 €
Estimate : 243.92 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 121.96 €
Estimate : 243.92 €
unsold lot
Type : Denier
Date: fin 240
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : + 450 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,90 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Emission: 8e
Coments on the condition:
Portrait inhabituel, large. Joli revers
Catalogue references :
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 : IOVIS - STATOR.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout de face, regardant à droite, tenant un foudre de la main gauche et un long sceptre de la droite.
Reverse translation : "Jovis Statori", (Jupiter qui arrête les fuyards).
Commentary
Poids léger.
Lightweight
Lightweight
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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