brm_987342 - GORDIAN III Sesterce
120.00 €(Approx. 124.80$ | 99.60£)
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 242
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 17,04 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Joli sesterce bien centré. De beaux détails au droit. Usure régulière. Patine marron
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Gordianus Pius Felix Augustus", (L'empereur Gordien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P V COS II PP.
Reverse description : Gordien III, lauré debout à droite, vêtu militairement, tenant un globe de la main gauche et une haste transversale de la main droite.
Reverse translation : "Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate quintum Consul iterum Pater Patriæ", (Grand pontife, revêtu de la cinquième puissance tribunitienne consul pour la seconde fois père de la patrie).
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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