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Live auction - bpv_382137 - GORDIAN III Sesterce

GORDIAN III Sesterce AU
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Estimate : 450 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 01 March 2016 14:56:51
Type : Sesterce
Date: an 4
Mint name / Town : Viminacium, Mésie Supérieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 15,08 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré, un peu court sur la légende de droit. Beau portrait de Gordien III. Revers inhabituel. Très belle patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FE[L AVG].
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Gordianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Gordien pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : P M S C-O-L VIM// AN IIII.
Reverse description : La Mésie debout de face tournée à gauche tenant dans chaque main, un étendard légionnaire, inscrit VII à gauche et IIII à droite, placée devant un taureau à gauche tourné à droite et un lion à droite tourné à gauche ; le taureau lève l’antérieur gauche.
Reverse translation : “Provinciæ Mœsiæ Superioris Colonia Viminacium/ Anno quartum”, (Colonie de Viminacium province de Mésie supérieure/ quatrième année).

Commentary


Rubans de type 3. Ce type n’est recensé que pour l’an 4. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire reproduit dans l’ouvrage de Kotschek.

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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