394, Lot: 504. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gordian III. AD 238-244. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 4.81 g, 12h). Rome mint, 5th officina. Special emission, early AD 239. IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / P M TR P II COS P P, Providentia standing left, holding globe and transverse scepter. RIC IV 23; Calicó 3213; Biaggi 1362 (same rev. die). VF, lightly smoothed.