87, Lot: 157. Estimate $300. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GORDIAN III. 238-244 AD. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 22.62 gm). Struck 243-244 AD. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / Felicitas standing left, holding long caduceus and cornucopiae. RIC IV 328a; Banti 27; Cohen 73. Near EF, brown green patina, slightly double struck, but nonetheless a superb portrait of the young Gordian.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Ponterio 112 (27-28 April 2001), lot 449.