New Type for Gordian III
244, Lot: 332. Estimate $150. Sold for $270. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CAPPADOCIA, Caesarea-Eusebia. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ (21mm, 8.24 g, 12h). Dated RY 4 (AD 240/1). AV K M ANT ΓOPΔIANOC, laureate head right / MHT PO KAI B N, calathus containing five grain ears. Bland,
Last -; Sydenham,
Caesarea -; SNG Hunterian -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Righetti -; Lindgren & Kovacs -; Lindgren III -; MPR II -. VF, some cleaning marks. Apparently an unrecorded type for Gordian III.
From the J.S. Wagner Collection.
See lot 592 below for another extremely rare bronze of Gordian III from Caesarea from the Wagner Collection.