Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 937. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1. AV Aureus (7.40 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, AD 146-161. DIVA FAVSTINA, draped bust right, wearing hair bound in pearls / AETER-NITAS, Fortuna standing left, holding patera in right hand, rudder in left. RIC III 349a (Pius); Strack 450; Calicó 1743; BMCRE 369 (Pius). Superb EF, fully lustrous.

From a North American Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXV (29 November 1990), lot 399.