From the Girard and Steinberg Collections

Triton XVII, Lot: 713. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. As Caesar, AD 139-161. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 23.63 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, AD 140-144. AVRELIVS CAESAR AVG PII F COS, bare head right / PIETAS AVG, S C in exergue, priestly implements: knife, sprinkler, jug, lituus, and simpulum. RIC III 1234a (Pius); Strack 922; Banti 230; BMCRE 1405 (Pius). EF, choice hard dark green-brown patina.

Ex Luc Girard Collection (NAC 54, 10 March 2010), lot 447; Gilbert Steinberg Collection (NAC/Spink Taisei, 16 November 1994), lot 462.