CNG 112, Lot: 649. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gordian III. AD 238-244. AV Aureus (20mm, 5.17 g, 6h). Rome mint, 5th officina. Special emission, AD 241. IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / P M TR P IIII COS II P P, Apollo, naked to waist, seated left, holding olive branch in right hand and resting left elbow on lyre set on seat. RIC IV 102; Calicó 3221; Biaggi 1366; Jameson –; Mazzini 249 (same rev. die); NAC 98, lot 1350 (same dies). Lustrous. EF. Fine style.