281, Lot: 189. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis. Gordian III, with Tranquillina. AD 238-244. Æ Pentassarion (28mm, 13.53 g, 7h). Tullius Menophilus, consular legate. Struck AD 239-240. Confronted busts of Gordian III right, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Sarapis left, draped and wearing calathus / Emperor standing left, sacrificing over lighted tripod and holding inverted spear; E (mark of value) to right. H&J, Markianopolis 6.37.34.1; Varbanov -. VF, dark green patina.