CNG 88, Lot: 859. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BITHYNIA, Nicomedia. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ (33mm, 20.27 g, 6h). M • ANT • ΓOPΔIANOC AVΓ, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / NIKO(MH ligate)ΔN AI C NЄΩKOPΩ N (sic), Tyche of Nicomedia enthroned left, holding hexastyle temple façade in each hand. Corsten -; cf. RG 218 (Caracalla); cf. SNG von Aulock 812 (for obv. die) and 807-8 (for rev.; Pupienus); otherwise unpublished. Good VF, black-green patina, some smoothing in reverse fields. Apparently unique for this emperor.

From Group CEM. Ex Virgil Brand Collection (Part 7, Sotheby’s, 25 October 1984), lot 355.