349, Lot: 213. Estimate $75. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Istrus. Gordian III, with Tranquillina. AD 238-244. Æ Pentassarion (26mm, 12.03 g, 1h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Gordian right, and draped bust of Tranquillina left, wearing stephane, facing one another / Mithras on horse prancing right; to left, bird perched right on column; E (mark of value) and lighted altar to right. AMNG I 524; Varbanov 688-90 var. (obv. legend). VF, brown patina, some roughness on the obverse.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection.