158, Lot: 116. Estimate $100. Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Pentassarion (28mm, 16.02 g). Tullius Menophilus, consular legate. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian III right, vis à vis draped bust of Sarapis left / VP MHNOFILOV MA-P[KIANOPOLI]-T/W/N, Apollo Lycceius standing facing, head right, holding bow in left hand, right hand on head, quiver draped with clothes left, serpent entwined around stump of tree right; E in left field. AMNG I 1130; SNG Copenhagen 255; SNG Budapest 264; Varbanov 1947. VF, dark green and brown patina.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection; Ex Davissons 15 (March 2001), lot 154.