Triton XV, Lot: 1395. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Tripolis. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ (36mm, 26.72 g, 6h). • AVT • K • M • ANT • ΓOPΔIANOC, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / TPIΠOΛ-ЄITΩN, Cybele (Magna Mater) seated left, holding long scepter in right hand, left arm leaning on tympanum (drum). BMC -; SNG München -; SNG von Aulock 8297 (same rev. die); Imhoof-Blumer, Lydische -. EF, green patina, even light roughness, some bare metal showing on reverse.

From Group CEM. Ex Sternberg XII (19 November 1982), lot 714.