331, Lot: 184. Estimate $150. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Gordian III. AD 238-244. BI Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.25 g, 6h). Struck AD 242. Radiate and cuirassed bust left, holding spear over shoulder and shield decorated with gorgoneion / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, holding wreath in beak; between legs, crescent above ram leaping left, head right. McAlee 884 (same obv. die as illustration); Prieur 299. Near VF, porous. Rare.