Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1191. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Anazarbus. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ 6 Assaria (32mm, 17.28 g, 12h). Dated CY 257 (AD 238/9). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / Draped bust of Selene right, set on crescent, seven stars around; G-B across upper fields, ZNC (date) to right. Cf. Ziegler 693 (for reverse type); SNG Levante -; SNG France -. VF, black-green patina, minor roughness. An apparently unpublished denomination and reverse type for this year.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.