E-auction 375-287826 - bpv_599038 - GORDIAN III Pentassaria
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| Estimate : | 115 € |
| Price : | 120 € |
| Maximum bid : | 145 € |
| End of the sale : | 22 June 2020 15:02:30 |
| bidders : | 13 bidders |
Type : Pentassaria
Date: 241-244
Mint name / Town : Marcianopolis, Mésie Inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27,50 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,40 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier. Beaux portraits à l’usure superficielle. Très joli revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Très belle patine vert olive foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du catalogue Gilles Blançon 41 (2003) n° 522 (140€)
Obverse
Obverse description : Bustes affrontés de Gordien III lauré, drapé et cuirassé à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière et de Sérapis, coiffée du calathos et drapé vu de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse legend : M ANT GORDIANOS// AUG, (Autokrator Kaisar Markos Antonios Gordianos Augustos)
Obverse translation : (Marc Antoine Gordien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Tyché (la Fortune) coiffée du kalathos et drapée, assise à gauche, tenant un gouvernail de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche ; une roue sous le siège.
Reverse legend : UP MHNOFILOU - MARKIANPOL//ITWN/ E|-, (Upatewn Mnofilou Markianopliton)
Reverse translation : (du magistrat Ménophilos de Marcianopolis).
Commentary
Poids léger. Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire reproduit dans l’ouvrage de Varbonov (p. 192, n° 2022).
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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