CNG 84, Lot: 1034. Estimate $1000. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 25.17 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 141-143. Laureate head right / Ops seated left, holding scepter and adjusting her mantle on left shoulder. RIC III 612 var. (flower on chair stretcher); Banti 245. Good VF, green-brown patina. Rare.

From the John Bitner Collection. Ex Rauch 75 (6 May 2005), lot 492.