409, Lot: 656. Estimate $150. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 17.83 g, 11h). Rome mint, 3rd officina. 8th-11th emissions, late AD 240-early 243. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Laetitia standing left, holding wreath and anchor. RIC IV 300a; Banti 38. VF, brown surfaces, some green deposits. With an early 20th century Dutch collector’s ticket.

Ex UBS 45 (15 September 1998), lot 972; Jacques Schulman FPL LXII (1915), no. 1242 (part of).