Triton XV, Lot: 442. Estimate $150. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THESSALY, Magnetes. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Diassarion (25mm, 9.83 g, 7h). ΜΑΑΝ l. up, ΓΟ[ΡΔΙΑ]ΝΟC r. down, radiate and draped bust of Gordianus r., border of dots / AΡΓΩΜΑΓ from lower r., l. circular, retrograde; ΝΗΤ[ΩΝ] above, the ship Argo with rowers, r., above B, border of dots. Rogers 379, fig. 196 (same dies) corr. [the bust on the obv. is radiate, and Rogers described it as laureate]. Good Fine, green patina, with minor flatness, the rev. marginally off centre.