Very Rare Agonistic Issue

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1053. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $270. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PONTUS, Neocaesarea. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ 28mm (16.72 g, 6h). Dated CY 178 (AD 241/2). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Agonistic crown with central jewel inscribed with letter A set on prize table; palm below table; date in exergue. Çizmeli 305 (D2/R9); RG 52 var. (palm on rev.; same obv. die); Lindgren III 141. VF, black-green and red-brown patina. Very rare.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.