73, Lot: 55. Estimate $75. Sold for $52. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Odessus. Gordian III. 238-244 AD. Æ 27mm (13.51 gm). Dated year 5 (243 AD). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Gordian III left and draped bust of Serapis right, weraring modius, vis-à-vis / Hygieia standing right, feeding serpent out of a patera; E (date) in left field. AMNG I 2350; cf. SNG Stancomb 853 (Tyche). VF, olive patina. 

From the Patrick Cooper Collection.