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Up for auction is a Roman Provincial coin of Gordian III from 238-244 AD. Minted in one of the Greek cities from the Koinon of Macedon.
Diameter: 20mm
ID# 381j (UK)
MINT: Koinon of Macedon
OBVERSE; AΛEXANΔΡOY
-Head of Alexander right in lionskin headdress.
REVERSE; KOINON MAKEΔONΩN B NEΩ
- Lion advancing right, club above.
REFERENCE: SNG Cop. 1375
Gordian III
238 - 244
When the revolt of Gordian I & II in Northern Africa failed the Senate appointed Pupienus and Balbinus as joint emperors. However, this choice proved to be so unpopular that the Senate sought and found the grandson of Gordian I and named him Caesar so as to give an air of a dynastic lineage. Balbinus and Pupienus were murdered soon after leaving the teenage Gordian III as sole emperor. Gordian III then spent the next several years in relative obscurity participating in various wars. He was killed by agents of his Praetorian Prefect, Philip, who had ambitions to become emperor himself.