Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 941. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $19000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. AV Aureus (7.30 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 162. IMP M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG P M, bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / SALVTI AVGVSTOR TR P XVI, COS III in exergue, Salus standing left, feeding out of patera in right hand snake coiled around and rising from altar, and holding scepter in left hand. RIC III 56; MIR 18, 38-2/17; Calicó 1912; BMCRE p. 410, * var. (not draped); Cohen 554. Superb EF, lustrous. Boldly struck on both sides.