349, Lot: 496. Estimate $150. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Sestertius (29mm, 21.68 g, 12h). Rome mint, 6th officina. 3rd emission, AD 239. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Gordian, wearing sacerdotal dress, holding scepter and sacrificing out of patera over lighted tripod to left. RIC IV 271; Banti 62. Good VF, dark gray-brown and red patina.