272, Lot: 195. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Dionysopolis. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Pentassarion (28mm, 12.28 g, 1h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Gordian right, vis-à-vis draped bust of Serapis left, wearing modius / Female deity standing left within tetrastyle temple; altar before deity, • in pediment, E (mark of value) in exergue. Jekov, Dionysiopolis 134 var./corr. (no altar/figure in temple described as Dionysus); AMNG I/1, -; Varbanov -. VF, green and brown patina.

The figure in the temple appears female and is quite unlike the figure on the other type Jekov groups this with, which clearly shows Dionysus. Additionally, while one should be extremely hesitant in treating an architectural scene like a photograph, the tall podium and more elaborate pediment and roofline of the temple of Dionysus, complete with acroteria, seem to suggest we are dealing with an entirely different structure. The figure on the current type perhaps represents Homonoia, holding a patera and cornucopia, as she appears on other types of Dionysiopolis where just the figure of the deity is represented.