brm_719604 - GORDIAN III Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: fin 239-début 240
Date: 239-240
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 450 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,55 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan épais, centré. Joli revers. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES GORDIANVS PIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Caesar Gordianus Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur César Gordien pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LIBERALITAS AVG III.
Reverse description : Liberalitas (la Libéralité) debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant de la main droite un abacus et une double corne d’abondance.
Reverse translation : “Liberalitas Augusti tertium”, (La troisième Libéralité de l'auguste).
Commentary
Monnaie hybride.
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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