337, Lot: 255. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Decapolis. Nysa-Scythopolis. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ (23mm, 10.18 g, 1h). Dated CY 304 (AD 240/1). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Dionysus advancing right, holding thyrsos, placing hand on head of herm-like figure; panther to lower left, grape bunch to upper right, Δ-Τ (date) across field. Barkay 85; Sofaer 59. Near VF, gray-brown patina.