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132, Lot: 312. Estimate $75.
Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

[BM Electrotype copy] Gordian III. 238-244 AD. Æ "Medallion" (38mm, 48.02 g). Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust left, holding spear over right shoulder / View of the interior of the Circus Maximus, obelisk in the center, three metae to either side, two chariots racing around spina; in the foreground, from left to right, wounded gladiator being led away by an attendant, two boxers boxing, a pair of pancratiastae, two wrestlers, two gladiators; in the background, Gordian in a chariot drawn by six horses, Victory standing alongside placing wreath on Gordian's head, the chariot being preceded by three soldiers carrying palms. Gnecchi 27, pl. 104, 10 ("same dies"); Grueber p. 46, 5 ("this coin"). VF, dark greenish-brown patina, edge stamped RR (Robert Ready). This is an electrotype of a bimetallic medallion in the British Museum.