260, Lot: 373. Estimate $150. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Pentassarion (28mm, 11.44 g, 2h). Tullius Menopholius, consular legate. Struck AD 239-240. Confronted busts of Gordian III right, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Serapis left, draped and wearing kalathos / Apollo standing facing, head right, raising arm over head and holding bow; to left, E (mark of value) above quiver and drapery; serpent-entwined tree to right. AMNG I 1130-1 var. (legends); Hristova & Jekov 6.37.7.1-4; Varbanov 1948. Good VF, green patina.