bpv_778294 - GORDIAN III Pentassaria
195.00 €(Approx. 200.85$ | 161.85£)
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Type : Pentassaria
Date: 238-239
Mint name / Town : Thessalonique, Macédoine
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 11,04 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais bien centré à l’usure régulière. Revers inhabituel. Patine épaisse vert foncé
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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(WN)IOS GORDIANOS
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Antoine Gordien).
Reverse
Reverse description : Trépied orné de cinq pommes sur lequel s’enroule un serpent.
Reverse legend : Q-ESSALONIKEWN NEOKRWN/ PU|QIA// -
Reverse translation : (de Thessalonique décorée, Prix).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Sur cet exemplaire, au revers le mot Pythia est visible.
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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