Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 1812. Estimate $200. Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002. Sold For $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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GORDIAN III. 238-244 AD. Æ As (9.91 gm). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust left / Securitas standing left, holding sceptre and leaning on column. RIC IV 335c; Cohen 331. Rare. Lot also includes another Æ As of Gordian III of same obverse type. Mars walking right, holding spear and shield. RIC IV 332c. Rare. Both coins fine, with problems. Two (2) coins in lot. ($200)
From the George His Collection of coins of Gordian III, with his tickets. The first, ex Stack's Coin Galleries Sale (16 November 1983), lot 554 (part of). The second, ex William Turner Collection (Alex G. Malloy Sale LIII, 1988), lot 255.