318, Lot: 755. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 25.27 g, 1h). Rome mint, 5th officina. 10th emission, AD 242. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Apollo seated left, holding branch and resting elbow on lyre. RIC IV 303a; Banti 74. Good VF, brown patina, minor roughness.

From the Leo & Paula Gorelkin Collection. Ex Frank Sternberg/Freeman & Sear XXVIII (Zurich, 30 October 1995), lot 251.