Rome or Antioch?

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1200. Estimate $7500. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gordian III. AD 238-244. AV Aureus (19mm, 4.39 g, 12h). Rome (or Antioch?) mint, 1st officina. 8th-11th emission, AD 240-243. IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / AETER N ITATI AVG, Sol, radiate, naked except for cloak over shoulders and left arm, raising right hand and holding globe in left hand. RIC IV 97; Calicó 3186a var. (break in rev. legend); Biaggi 1352 var. (same); cf. Hunter 41. Superb EF, minor deposits, die break on reverse. Unusual portrait style. Perhaps minted at Antioch.