v21_3023 - GORDIAN III Tridrachme
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 150.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 210.00 €
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 150.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 210.00 €
Type : Tridrachme
Date: 240
Mint name / Town : Césarée, Cappadoce
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 400 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,24 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale. Beau portrait avec une faiblesse de frappe sur le portrait et un graffiti devant le nez. Joli revers. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
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 SEBA, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Markos Antwnios Gordianos Sebastos).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Antoine Gordien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Mont Argée surmonté d’une statue.
Reverse legend : MHTROP - KAISARI// B-NE/ ETG.
Reverse translation : (Ville de Césarée, an 3).
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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