Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 989. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Ephesus. Gordian III. 238-244 AD. Æ Medallion (37mm 25.14 gm, 6h). Homonoia with Alexandria in Egypt. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / OMONOI/A in upper field, EFECIWN K(ai) ALEXANDREW/N in three lines in exergue, cult statues of Diana (Artemis) Ephesia and Serapis facing. Franke & Nollé Type XXV, 554A (this coin); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Tübingen 2844. VF, black patina with orichalcum highlights, light overall roughness. Extremely rare, the third known specimen and the only one not in a public collection. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Marcel Burstein Collection (Peus 366, 25 October 2000), lot 628; Giessener Münzhandlung 79 (14 October 1996), lot 396.