Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 642. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. Æ Sestertius (25.18 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Marcus Aurelius, AD 161-164. FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, draped bust right, wearing stephane / SALVTI AVGVSTAE, S C across field, Salus seated left, feeding out of patera in right hand a snake coiled around and rising from altar, resting left arm on side of chair. RIC III 1668 (Aurelius); MIR 18, 30-6a; Banti 110; BMCRE 942-8 (Aurelius and Verus) var. (S C in exergue). Good VF, dark green-brown patina.

From the White Mountain Collection.