Wearable Ancient Jewelry

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 971. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $3850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gordian III. AD 238-244. AV Aureus (6.19 g, 6h). Rome mint, 1st officina. 1st emission, AD 238. IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / FIDES MILITVM, Fides standing left, holding signa in right hand, transverse scepter in left. RIC IV 7; Calicó 3196; Hunter -. EF, light scratch on reverse; in ancient gold suspension mount.

From a North American Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (15 February 1995), lot 1301.