279, Lot: 565. Estimate $150. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 24.80 g, 12h). Rome mint, 1st emission. 1st emission, July AD 238-July AD 239. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Providentia standing left, holding globe and scepter. RIC IV 257a; Banti 93. VF, brown patina, a few edge splits. Good early portrait more closely resembling Gordian II.