bpv_931881 - GORDIAN III Tetrassaria
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Type : Tetrassaria
Date: 241-244
Mint name / Town : Hadrianopolis, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 8,79 g.
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli buste. Usure régulière. Revers agréable. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AUT K M ANT GORDIANOS (AUG), (Autokratoros Markos Antwnios Gordianos Augustos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Antoine Gordien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Pallas (Minerve) casquée debout à droite, vêtue militairement, tenant son bouclier de la main gauche et une haste renversée de la main droite.
Reverse legend : ADRIANOPOLITWN
Reverse translation : (d’Hadrianopolis).
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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