Rare City

271, Lot: 333. Estimate $100. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHRYGIA, Bruzus. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ (25mm, 7.12 g, 12h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Hygeia standing right, holding serpent which she feeds from a patera, facing Asclepius standing facing, head left, leaning on serpent-entwined staff. SNG von Aulock 3528 (same dies). VF, green patina, some rough deposits. Rare city.