Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1229. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $135. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Gordian III. AD 238-244. AR Tetradrachm (12.60 g, 12h). Struck AD 242. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Eagle standing facing, head left, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; below, upturned crescent above ram, head right, leaping left. Prieur 295; SNG Copenhagen -. EF, traces of porosity.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.