v08_0366 - GORDIAN III Sesterce, (GB, Æ 30)
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 167.69 €
Estimate : 289.65 €
Realised price : 190.56 €
Starting price : 167.69 €
Estimate : 289.65 €
Realised price : 190.56 €
Type : Sesterce, (GB, Æ 30)
Date: 240
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : bronze or copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 17,05 g.
Officine: 3e
Emission: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait. Patine marron clair / Sujet bien centré au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Marc-Antoine Gordien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCORDIA AVG//SC.
Reverse description : Concordia (la Concorde) assise à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une double corne d'abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : (La Concorde de l'auguste).
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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