Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 696. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Hadrianopolis. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ 27mm (10.76 g, 1h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / City gate with roofed towers flanking single arched entry; crenelated passageway above. Yorukova, Hadrianople - (V270/R625; unlisted die combination); SNG Copenhagen -; Varbanov 2104. VF, green patina with earthen overtones, light smoothing in fields.

From the Alexandre de Barros Collection.