Ndalama yachiroma ya m’zaka za m’ma 3, zimene tikunenazi, ndi dinari imodzi ya mfumu imene inaukira munthu wopha Alexander Sever, ndipo inalamulira kwa masiku 22 okha.
Kodi ndikufunika kufotokoza zakusowa kwa dinari yotere? Ndipo kusungidwa kwake kwabwino kumapangitsa kuti ndalamazo zikhale zogulira zofunika kwambiri kwa wodziwa zenizeni za ndalama zaku Roma. Alexander Sever anaphedwa ku Germany panthawi ya chigawenga chotsogoleredwa ndi Maximinus the Thrace. Malingana ndi umboni wa olemba akale, iye anali mwana wa Sarmatian ndi Goth, zomwe zimapangitsa kuti zikhale zotheka kuti adachokera kudera la Ukraine yamakono. Iye anasankha mwini malo wolemera Mark Antony Gordian Woyamba Sempronian Romanus kukhala bwanamkubwa wake ku Africa, amene anali m’gulu la anthu olemekezeka a Roma ndipo anakhala ndi maudindo apamwamba m’boma kangapo, kuphatikizapo kazembeyo ali ndi zaka 64.
Pamodzi ndi mwana wake (wotchedwa Gordian II), yemwenso anali ndi udindo wa kazembe, adatsogolera chigawo cha Africa. Mu March 238, asilikali amene anaima ku Africa motsogozedwa ndi Senate anapanduka ndipo, atamva ululu wa imfa, anakakamiza onse a Gordian kulandira maudindo a Augustus. Mwadzidzidzi, bwanamkubwa wa chigawo choyandikana ndi Numidia, yemwe anali ndi gulu lankhondo lodziwa zambiri komanso laluso, adatuluka kudzathandizira Maximinus. Poteteza Carthage mu April 238, Gordian Wachiwiri anagonjetsedwa ndi kuphedwa, akulamulira kwa masiku 20. Atamva zimenezi, Gordian I wazaka 80 anadzipha. Atakhala ndi moyo wautali komanso wachimwemwe, adakumana ndi zovuta, atakhala pampando kwa masiku 22 okha.
