Live auction - brm_462374 - GORDIAN III Antoninien
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| Estimate : | 280 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 30 January 2018 14:45:26 |
Type : Antoninien
Date: 242- mars 244
Date: 242-244
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 450 ‰
Diameter : 0,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,53 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type monétaire. Portrait fantastique. Revers de haut relief. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (B4).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Antoine Gordien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SAECVLI F-ELICITAS.
Reverse description : L'empereur, lauré et drapé, debout à droite, tenant une haste transversale de la main droite et un globe de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Sæculi Felicitas" (La Félicité du siècle).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines. Cuirasse squamata (écailles).
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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