bpv_540648 - GORDIAN III Tétradrachme
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Price : 130.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 2
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : billon
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,22 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
La monnaie présente une usure régulière. Elle est couverte d’une patine sombre
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de Gibut & Naumann, Auction 33, lot N°415
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse legend : A K M AN GORDIANOS EU SEB, (Autokrator Kaisar Markos Antonios Gordianos Eusebios Sebastos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Antonius Gordien pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : L.
Reverse description : Le Nil couché à gauche, tenant une corne d’abondance de la main droite.
Reverse legend : D
Reverse translation : (an 3).
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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