Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 496. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYCIA, Patara. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ 29mm (21.89 g, 12h). AVT KAI M ANT GORDIANOC CEB, laureate and draped bust right / PATA R E w И, Bellerophon left on Pegasus, thrusting spear in raised left hand at the Chimaera below, standing left. Von Aulock, Münzprägung 242 (same dies; rev. illustrated) = SNG Copenhagen 115; BMC -; SNG von Aulock -. VF, black-green patina with areas of red on obverse. Extremely rare.

From the James E. Cain Collection.