brm_635396 - GORDIAN III Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: février-mars
Date: 244
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,08 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire, centré. Joli revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Gordianus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur Gordien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FORT REDVX.
Reverse description : Fortuna (la Fortune) assise à gauche, tenant un gouvernail de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la gauche ; sous son siège, une roue.
Reverse translation : "Fortuna Redux", (Le retour de la Fortune).
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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