Gordian I Africanus AR Denarius. Rome, AD 238. IMP M ANT GORDIANVS AFR AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SECVRITAS AVGG, Securitas seated to left, holding short sceptre. RIC IV 5; BMCRE 11; RSC 10. 2.54g, 20mm, 5h.
Very Fine; flan flaw to obverse; attractively toned. Rare.
Ex Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 112, 25 November 2002, lot 756;
Ex Münzgalerie C. Mohr, Auction 15, 11-12 May 1979, lot 177.