Rare Aureus of Aurelius as Caesar

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 938. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. As Caesar, AD 139-161. AV Aureus (7.39 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, AD 140-144. AVRELIVS CAE-SAR AVG PII F COS, bare head right / PIETAS • AVG, knife, sprinkler, ewer, lituus, and simpulum. RIC III 424a (Pius); Strack 122; Calicó 1883; BMCRE 276 (Pius). Near EF, minor marks on edge. Rare.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 25 (25 June 2003), 578.