CNG 99, Lot: 654. Estimate $7500. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. AV Aureus (18mm, 6.77 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 162. • M • ΛNTONINVS ΛVG, bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SΛLVTI ΛVGVSTOR TR P XVI around, COS III in exergue, Salus standing left, holding scepter and feeding out of patera snake coiled around and rising from altar to left. RIC III 54; MIR 18, 43-2/17; Calicó 1909 ; BMCRE 198, note; Biaggi 865 var. (laureate). Near EF, underlying luster, traces of deposits, a few minor marks on reverse.