Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1062. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GORDIAN III. 238-244 AD. Æ Sestertius (22.06 gm). IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FELIX AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / AETER-NITATI AVG, S C across field, Sol standing facing, head left, raising right hand and holding globe in left. RIC IV 297 note; cf. Hunter 123; cf. Cohen 43. VF, brown patina, slight pitting, small flan crack. Very rare variety with the bust seen from the front and with FELIX spelled out. ($500) 

From the George His Collection of coins of Gordian III, with his ticket. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 38 (6-7 June 1996), lot 1096; The Miguel Muñoz Collection, part 4 (Superior, 7-10 June 1982), lot 814.