352, Lot: 227. Estimate $100. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Pentassarion (26mm, 9.01 g, 7h). Tullius Menophilus, legatus consularis. Struck AD 239-240. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Gordian and draped bust of Serapis, wearing calathus, facing one another / Tetrastyle temple, with pellet in pediment and containing Fortuna standing facing, holding rudder and cornucopia; E (mark of value) in exergue. H&J, Marcianopolis 6.37.46.2; Varbanov 2015. VF, brown surfaces, some roughness.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection.