Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1462. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GORDIAN III. 238-244 AD. Æ Sestertius (19.60 gm, 6h). Struck 238-239 AD. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VOTIS/DECENN/ALIBVS/S C in four lines within wreath. RIC V 263a; Cohen 410. Near VF, dark olive-brown patina. Very rare. ($400)

Ex Bullowa-Coin Hunter (25 June 1991), lot 674.

His notes that this is the only specimen he has seen on the market since he acquired it in 1991. One of Gordian's rarest sestertii.