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<p>[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3028668, member: 74834"]Here's a tetradrachm of the emperor <a href="http://www.roman-emperors.org/gordo3.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.roman-emperors.org/gordo3.htm" rel="nofollow">Gordian III</a> as caesar. His father and grandfather were usurpators against Maximinus Thrax in the Six Emperor Year of 238 ('Profession?' '- Usurpator.'). One was killed, the other despaired and committed suicide. </p><p>The only unblemished hope of the whole of the Roman Empire at that moment was the son of Gordian II, thirteen-year-old Marcus Antonius Gordianus. </p><p><br /></p><p>He was pushed forward reluctantly as Caesar and thus Imperial Heir on April 22, 238, by the two unwilling, elderly emperors Balbinus and Pupienus, who had been compelled to assume the purple. </p><p>Maximinus and his son were killed by his dissatisfied troops, and so were Balbinus and Pupienus, by the Praetorian Guard - on July 29, 238. </p><p>That innocent lamb, young Gordian, was the only one left to reign the vast Empire and so the youthful Caesar was made Emperor on that sunny Lion's day, the 29th of July. </p><p><br /></p><p>This short period as Caesar, three months and a week, led me to seek this coin and now I acquired it. A billon Alexandrian tetradrachm of Gordian III as caesar: KAIS, not SEB, <i>sebastes</i> for Emperor. He doesn't wear a headdress on this coin: no laurels or other crown. And he doesn't look like his emperor portraits: an amorphous head, like the celators didn't yet know he possessed that good-natured smile and tip-tilted nose, that we all know from Gordian's antoniniani, denarii and sestertii.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tetradrachm Alexandria. Year 1 (=238). Obv. Bare head, draped and cuirassed, t.r., M ANT GORDIANOS KAIS. Rev. Nike seated t.l., holding wreath, year A at the left side of the coin. Greyish billon with slightly silvery patina. 21 mm, 12.23 gr. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]754448[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3028668, member: 74834"]Here's a tetradrachm of the emperor [URL='http://www.roman-emperors.org/gordo3.htm']Gordian III[/URL] as caesar. His father and grandfather were usurpators against Maximinus Thrax in the Six Emperor Year of 238 ('Profession?' '- Usurpator.'). One was killed, the other despaired and committed suicide. The only unblemished hope of the whole of the Roman Empire at that moment was the son of Gordian II, thirteen-year-old Marcus Antonius Gordianus. He was pushed forward reluctantly as Caesar and thus Imperial Heir on April 22, 238, by the two unwilling, elderly emperors Balbinus and Pupienus, who had been compelled to assume the purple. Maximinus and his son were killed by his dissatisfied troops, and so were Balbinus and Pupienus, by the Praetorian Guard - on July 29, 238. That innocent lamb, young Gordian, was the only one left to reign the vast Empire and so the youthful Caesar was made Emperor on that sunny Lion's day, the 29th of July. This short period as Caesar, three months and a week, led me to seek this coin and now I acquired it. A billon Alexandrian tetradrachm of Gordian III as caesar: KAIS, not SEB, [I]sebastes[/I] for Emperor. He doesn't wear a headdress on this coin: no laurels or other crown. And he doesn't look like his emperor portraits: an amorphous head, like the celators didn't yet know he possessed that good-natured smile and tip-tilted nose, that we all know from Gordian's antoniniani, denarii and sestertii. Tetradrachm Alexandria. Year 1 (=238). Obv. Bare head, draped and cuirassed, t.r., M ANT GORDIANOS KAIS. Rev. Nike seated t.l., holding wreath, year A at the left side of the coin. Greyish billon with slightly silvery patina. 21 mm, 12.23 gr. [ATTACH=full]754448[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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