From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008.



                  Lot # 454 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$500 / Price 
                  Realized: US$725 
                  Gordian III. Silver denarius 



             



            Gordian III. (238-244 AD). Silver denarius (2.90 gm). Rome, 239 AD. 
            IMP C M ANT GORDIANVS AVG, bust laureate, draped, cuirassed right / 
            P M TR P II COS P P, Fides standing left, holding standard and 
            transverse scepter. Unpublished apart from this specimen (see 
            pedigree below). Extremely fine. 

            Ex Triton V, 2002, George His Collection, lot 2075; ex CNG XXXVII, 
            29 September 1993, lot 1079. 

            In 240 Gordian III struck two large issues of denarii (see lot 485 
            below), but denarii produced at other times of his reign are very 
            rare, on a par with the denarii struck during the reign of his 
            successor, Philip I. Our coin of early 239 is apparently unique as a 
            denarius; not in RIC; not in A. Jurging, “Die erste Emission 
            Gordians III.,” JNG 45, 1995; not in Berk photofile; only this 
            specimen in CoinArchives. 




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  ... Lot 454 sold for high bid of $725 [ $833.75, or approx 575.2875 EUR, 425.2125 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 

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