bpv_943211 - GORDIAN III Tetrassaria
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Type : Tetrassaria
Date: 241-244
Mint name / Town : Nicopolis ad Istrum, Mésie inférieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,01 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait de Gordien III. Très joli revers. Magnifique patine verte
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Gordien III à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AUT K M ANT - GORDIANOS (AUG), (Autokrator Kaisaros Markos Antonios Gordianos Sebastos)
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Marc Antoine Gordien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Hadès/ Sérapis, nu jusqu’à la ceinture, coiffé du calathos, la main droite tendue, tenant un sceptre de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, Cerbère.
Reverse legend : UP SAB MODESTOU NIK-OPOLEIT(WN)// PROS ISTRO (Upatewn Sabinons Modestou Nikopeitwn Pros Istrwn)
Reverse translation : (Hypateon Sabinus Modestus de Nicopolis près de l’Istrus, Danube).
Commentary
Point de centrage des deux côtés.
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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