Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1548. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GORDIAN III. 238-244 AD. Æ Sestertius (22.00 gm). Struck 241-243 AD. IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / IOVI STATORI, S C across field, Jupiter standing front, head right, holding sceptre in right hand, cradling thunderbolt in left arm. RIC IV 298a; Banti 37; Hunter 134; Cohen 111. EF, attractive red-brown patina. ($750)

Ex Boyd Collection (Baldwin's, 26 September 2005), lot 570 (part of), with his original ticket (numbered 96); purchased from W.S. Lincoln, September 1900.