Triton XIX, Lot: 602. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gordian II. AD 238. AR Denarius (19mm, 2.84 g, 11h). Rome mint. IMP M ANT GORDIANVS AFR AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTO-RIA AVGG, Victory advancing left, holding wreath in extended right hand, cradling palm frond with left arm. RIC IV 2; BMCRE 28; RSC 12. EF, toned, small flan crack.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Stack’s (9 December 1992), lot 3329; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s New York, 21 June 1990), lot 793.