Triton XXI, Lot: 822. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gordian III. AD 238-244. AV Aureus (20mm, 5.04 g, 6h). Rome mint, 6th officina. 3rd emission, mid AD 239. IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / P M TR P II COS P P, Gordian III, veiled and togate, standing left, holding parazonium in left hand, sacrificing out of patera in right hand over lighted altar to left. RIC IV 43; Calicó 3216; Biaggi 1364. EF, lustrous.