283, Lot: 302. Estimate $150. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Sestertius (28mm, 16.11 g, 12h). Rome mint, 4th officina. 2nd emission, AD 239. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Salus seated left, feeding out of patera serpent rising from altar to left. RIC IV 261a; Banti 96. VF, dark gray-brown patina, traces of red, edge splits and hairline flan cracks at 3 and 9 o’clock.