Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 729. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Sestertius (18.66 g, 12h). Rome mint, 6th officina. 3rd emission, AD 239. IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / P M TR P II COS P P, S C across field, Gordian, veiled and togate, standing facing, head left, sacrificing out of patera in right hand over lighted altar and holding short scepter in left. RIC 271; Banti 62; Hunter 81. EF, dark green-brown patina, traces of smoothing in the fields.