359, Lot: 166. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Pentassarion (27mm, 15.87 g, 1h). 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 / Apollo standing facing, head right, raising hand to head and holding bow; quiver to lower left; to right, serpent coiled right around stump; E (mark of value) to upper left. H&J,
Marcianopolis 6.37.7.2; Varbanov 1948. VF, green-brown patina.