285, Lot: 351. Estimate $150. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 20.76 g, 12h). Rome mint, 1st officina. 1st emission, AD 238. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Fides standing left, holding signum and scepter. RIC IV 254a; Banti 31. Near EF, mostly brown patina with some green, flan split. Good early portrait.

Ex Numismatic Fine Arts Summer MBS (27 June 1986), 824.