382, Lot: 223. Estimate $100. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MOESIA INFERIOR, Odessus. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Pentassarion (27mm, 12.55 g, 6h). AVT K MA/ ANTΩNIOC ΓOPΔIANOC, confronted busts of Gordian right, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Serapis left, draped and wearing calathus, with cornucopia at shoulder / Hygeia standing right, feeding serpent from patera, and Asclepius standing facing, leaning on serpent-entwined staff; E (mark of value) and Telesphorus between. AMNG 2347 var. (obv. legend); Varbanov 4466 var. (obv. legend, placement of E on rev.). VF, brown patina.
From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind.