CNG 102, Lot: 967. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.25 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 145-147. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P, laureate head right / TR PO T COS IIII, Roma, helmeted and draped, seated left on throne, feet on footstool, holding palladium on extended right hand and vertical spear in left; round shield set on ground to right. RIC III 147; Strack 143δ; Calicó 1655; BMCRE 557; Biaggi 765. VF.