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Message:: [QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 8277771, member: 85693"]In my limited experience, anything AE smaller than a sestertius is hard to find for Gordian III.  But by chance I came across two in eBay lots this year so far, both asses (as's?  I hate calling them "asses").  Both are rough: [ATTACH=full]1461702[/ATTACH] Gordian III                        Æ As(240 A.D.)                 Rome MintIMP GORDIA[NVS PI]VS FEL AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS A[VG] S [C], Virtus standing front, head left, holding branch and inverted spear, shield set on ground behind.RIC 293b; Cohen 391. (11.05 grams / 25 x 23 mm)eBay Jan. 2022     This one came in some antique souvenir packaging from the Roman baths at Bath: [ATTACH=full]1461698[/ATTACH] Gordian III                       Æ As(241-243 A.D.)Rome MintIMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / IOVI [STAT]ORI S C, Jupiter standing front holding thunderbolt and sceptre.RIC 298b; Cohen 112. (9.33 grams / 22 x 21 mm)eBay Jan. 2022        Attribution Note:  Coin came packaged in a cardboard holder with the printed heading:  The Roman Baths of Bath, England / Genuine Roman Bronze Coin.  The coin was taped to hole cut in holder with dried-out cellophane tape. Addition descriptions of the actual coin typed out on blue paper and glued to cardboard. c. 1940s-1960s (?) souvenir. [ATTACH=full]1461699[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]