Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1697. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $375. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Hadrianopolis. Gordian III. 238-244 AD. Æ 26mm (10.69 gm). AVT K M ANT GOPÐIANOC AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / Herakles and the apples of the Hesperides: ADRIA-NO-POLEITWN, Herakles, with lion's skin draped over left arm, standing left, holding apples from the garden of Hesperides in right hand and club in left. SNG Copenhagen -; BMC Thrace, etc. pg. 120, 35; Mionnet -; Voegtli -; Cornell 91 (this coin). EF, dark brown patina with some green. ($300)

From the David Simpson Collection.