362, Lot: 361. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Potin Tetradrachm (23mm, 13.29 g, 12h). Dated RY 2 (AD 238/9). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Nilus reclining left on hippopotamus(?), holding reed and cornucopia; L B (date) in left field. Köln 2628 var. (obv. legend); Dattari (Savio) 4760; K&G 72.40; Emmett 3419.2. VF, dark gray-brown surfaces, die flaws on Gordian’s portrait.

From the Hermanubis Collection.