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Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 294Auction date: 16 January 2013
Lot number: 433

Lot description:
Roman Provincial

MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis. Gordian III. AD 238-244. Æ Pentassarion (28mm, 12.30 g, 1h). Tullius Menophilus, legatus consularis. Struck AD 239-240. Confronted busts of Gordian right, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Serapis left, laureate and draped, wearing calathus / Cybele seated left, holding patera and leaning on tympanum (drum); lion seated to either side, E (mark of value) to upper left. H&J, Marcianopolis 6.37.31.1; Varbanov 1973. EF, dark green patina, very minor flaws on obverse. Rare.

From the RCM Collection. Ex Millon & Associates (21 May 2008), lot 95.


Estimate: $500