294, Lot: 433. Estimate $500. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Pentassarion (28mm, 12.30 g, 1h). Tullius Menophilus, legatus consularis. Struck AD 239-240. Confronted busts of Gordian right, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Serapis left, laureate and draped, wearing calathus / Cybele seated left, holding patera and leaning on tympanum (drum); lion seated to either side, E (mark of value) to upper left. H&J, Marcianopolis 6.37.31.1; Varbanov 1973. EF, dark green patina, very minor flaws on obverse. Rare.

From the RCM Collection. Ex Millon & Associates (21 May 2008), lot 95.