276, Lot: 256. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Pentassarion (28mm, 11.56 g, 6h). Tullius Menophilus, consular legate. Struck AD 239-240. AVT K M ANT ΓOPΔIANOC/ AVΓ, confronted busts of Gordian III right, laureate, draped, cuirassed, and Serapis left, draped and wearing modius / VΠ MHNO-ΦIΛ-OV M-APKIANOΠOΛ[I]/T, Nike standing left, holding wreath and palm frond. H&J - ; Varbanov -; AMNG I/1, 1141. VF, green patina. Apparently a rarely seen variety, one specimen cited by Pick (in Munich) but missing from the more recent publications on the coinage.