Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1230. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Gordian III. AD 238-244. AR Tetradrachm (13.75 g, 7h). Struck AD 242. Radiate and cuirassed bust left, seen from front / Eagle standing facing, head left, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; below, upturned crescent above ram, head right, leaping left. Prieur 298; SNG Copenhagen -. Good VF, find patina, minor areas of roughness.

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection.