Live auction - brm_532197 - GORDIAN I AFRICANUS Sesterce
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| Estimate : | 4 500 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 04 June 2019 15:14:21 |
Type : Sesterce
Date: 238
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 21,64 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier bien centré. Très joli buste de Gordien Ier d’Afrique. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Très jolie patine verte avec de minuscules concrétions de couleur sable
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AFR AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Africanus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Antoine Gordien l’Africain auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICT-ORIA - AVGG/ S|C.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) drapée, marchant à gauche, brandissant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum”, (La Victoire des augustes).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fine sous le paludamentum. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire reproduit dans l’ouvrage de D. Sear, vol. III, p. 9, n° 8453. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente.
Historical background
GORDIAN I AFRICANUS
(01-02/238)
Africa went into rebellion at the very beginning of the year 238. Gordian, governor of the Proconsular, took the lead in the revolt and immediately associated his son with the same name with power, by having him proclaimed Augustus. The Gordians are recognized by the Senate which hates Maximin I Thrace. But the reign of African emperors lasts only twenty-one days. The governor of Numidia, loyal to Maximin, enters Proconsulary with the III Augusta legion and crushes the ill-prepared troops of Gordian II. He finds death in battle. Hearing the news, his father commits suicide..
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