Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1180. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GORDIAN III. 238-244 AD. AR Antoninianus (3.67 gm, 5h). Antioch mint. Struck 239 AD. IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust left, seen from front / P M TR P II COS P P, Providentia standing left, holding globe in extended right hand and cradling sceptre in left arm. RIC IV 172; cf. Pink III, pg. 26; Hunter -; cf. Tulln Hoard 601; RSC 197a. VF, light porosity. Extremely rare, only one specimen of this obverse type in the Tulln Hoard; none of this reverse type. ($750)