Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1701. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Perinthus. Gordian III. 238-244 AD. Æ 42mm Medallion (35.85 gm). AVT K M ANT GOPÐIANOC AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / Herakles and the Cretan bull: PERIN-QEWN DIC NE-WKOP-WN, Herakles standing right, nude, with both hands grasping the head of the Cretan bull, running right, and jerking it back. SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Tübingen -; BMC Thrace, etc. -; McClean -; Weber -; Lindgren II -; Lindgren III -; Mionnet -; Voegtli -. Near VF, tan patina. Very rare. ($1500)

From the David Simpson Collection. Ex Italo Vecchi Auction 12 (5 June 1998), lot 1069.