brm_618330 - GORDIAN III Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: début
Date: 239
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 450 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,42 g.
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Flan épais, légèrement décentré au revers. Joli buste de style fin. Patine grise
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Antoine Gordien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P II COS P P.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant un globe de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate iterum Consul Pater Patriæ", (Grand pontife, revêtu de la deuxième puissance tribunicienne consul 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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