290, Lot: 239. Estimate $100. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Nicopolis ad Istrum. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ (27mm, 13.34 g, 1h). Sabinius Modestus, consular legate. Struck AD 241-244. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / City gate with two battlemented towers. AMNG I/1 2107 var. (rev. legend); H&J, Nikopolis8.36.46.32 var. (same); Varbanov 4181 var. (same). Good VF, glossy dark greenish-brown patina.

A slightly different reverse die from the published specimens, lacking the N in ICTPON.