CNG 102, Lot: 749. Estimate $1000. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Gordian III. AD 238-244. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 12.45 g, 12h). Struck circa AD 242. Radiate and cuirassed bust left, wearing balteus, holding spear over shoulder and shield decorated with gorgoneion / Eagle standing facing, head and tail left, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; between legs, crescent above ram leaping left, head right. McAlee 884 (same dies as illustration); Prieur 299. Good VF. Rare.

Ex Gemini IX (9 January 2012), lot 514.