bpv_718694 - GORDIAN III Tetrassaria
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Type : Tetrassaria
Date: 241-244
Mint name / Town : Hadrianopolis, Thrace
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 8,96 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, centré. Très joli revers, détaillé. Patine vert foncé
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), (Autokrator Kaisar Markos Antwnios Gordianos Augustos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Antoine Gordien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Gordien III à cheval galopant à droite, le manteau flottant au vent, brandissant une haste de la main droite.
Reverse legend : A-DRIA-NOP-O//LEIT(WN)
Reverse translation : (d’Hadrianopolis).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Trous de centrage visible des deux côtés.
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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