Sale: Nomos 10, Lot: 122. Estimate CHF1750. Closing Date: Sunday, 17 May 2015. Sold For CHF1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Gordian III, as Caesar, 238. Sestertius (Bronze, 29mm, 23.40 g 2), Rome, April-July 238. M ANT GORDIANVS CAES Bare-headed and draped bust of Gordian Caesar to right.
Rev. PIETAS AVGG / S C Augur's wand, sacrificial knife, patera, sacrificial jug, simpulum and sprinkler. Banti 59. BMC 64. Cohen 183. RIC 3. A well struck and well centered example with a very elegant portrait and an attractive brown and green patina. Some very minor flatness,
otherwise, about extremely fine.
Ex Triton IX, 10 January 2006, 1547.