352, Lot: 470. Estimate $75. Sold for $50. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Sestertius (28mm, 19.39 g, 12h). Rome mint, 5th officina. 11th emission, AD 243. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Apollo seated left, holding branch and resting elbow on lyre. RIC IV 304a; Banti 76. VF, brown patina, hard green encrustation.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection.