206, Lot: 335. Estimate $250. Sold for $1150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsus. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ 35mm (24.38 g, 12h). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, holding spear and shield decorated with gorgoneion / Sandan standing on horned animal right, bow and quiver over shoulder, holding flower and wreath; all within distyle temple with arched roof. SNG Levante 1140 (this coin); SNG France 1708 (same dies). VF, greenish-brown patina, minor roughness and some light deposits.

From the Mark Staal Collection; Ex Classical Numismatic Group 70 (21 September 2005), lot 583; Eduardo Levante Collection, 1140.

Struck from the same obverse die as the following lot.