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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Gordian III| > SL73004
Gordian III, 29 July 238 - 25 February 244 A.D.
|Gordian| |III|, |Gordian| |III,| |29| |July| |238| |-| |25| |February| |244| |A.D.|, Gordian III was the grandson of Gordian I and nephew of Gordian II. Made Caesar before the murders of Balbinus and Pupienus, he succeeded them. Little is known of his reign. In 242 A.D. he attacked Persia, gaining Mesopotamia. He died shortly after, through illness or plot of his Praetorian prefect and successor, Philip I.
SL73004. Orichalcum sestertius, RIC IV 291, Banti 64, Cohen V 17, Hunter III 81 var. (obv. legend), SRCV III 8724 - 8725 var. (same), NGC F, strike 5/5, surface 2/5, scratches (5770028-004), Rome mint, weight 14.366g, maximum diameter 30.0mm, die axis 0o, 239 A.D.; obverse IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse P M TR P II COS P P (high priest, holder of Tribunitian power for 2 years, consul, father of the country), Gordian III standing left, veiled and togate, sacrificing at flaming tripod-altar from patera in right hand, short scepter in left hand, S - C (senatus consulto) flanking low across field; NGC| Lookup; SOLD











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