Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1199. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Seleucia ad Calycadnum. Gordian III, with Tranquillina. AD 238-244. Æ 37mm (21.10 g, 6h). Struck AD 241-244. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Gordian right, seen from behind, and draped bust of Tranquillina left, wearing stephane, vis-à-vis; c/m: annulet within D / Laureate and draped bust of Apollo right, laurel branch behind, and draped bust of Artemis-Tyche left, cornucopiae behind, vis-à-vis. For coin: SNG Levante 776 var. (placement of Apollo and Artemis); SNG France 1034 (same obv. die); for c/m: Howgego 670. VF, green patina with dusty orange overtones, reverse rough.

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection.