Moesia Inferior, Markianopolis. Gordian III. 238-244 AD. AE Pentassarion (13.01g, 27mm). Tullius Menophilus, legatus consularis. Struck 239-40 AD. RPC VII.2 1358

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Moesia Inferior, Markianopolis. Gordian III. 238-244 AD. AE Pentassarion (13.01g, 27mm). Tullius Menophilus, legatus consularis. Struck 239-40 AD. Obv.: Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ, confronted busts of Gordian right, laureate, draped, and cuirassed, and Serapis left, laureate and draped, wearing calathus. Rev.: ΥΠ ΜΗΝΟΦΙΛΟΥ ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ, Cybele seated left, holding patera and leaning on tympanum (drum); lion seated to either side, E (mark of value) to upper left. RPC VII.2 1358; Varbanov 1973. Nice VF.