Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 1123. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius & Lucius Verus. AD 161-180. AR Denarius (3.09 g, 7h). Restitution issue of Mark Antony legionary type. Rome mint. Struck AD 165. Galley right / LEG VI, aquila between two signa. RIC III 443 (Aurelius and Verus); MIR 18, 120-4 (Aurelius); RSC 83. Good VF, lightly toned, traces of micro-granularity.

From the Gordon S. Parry Collection. Ex Sternberg XXIV (19 November 1990), lot 280.

Struck to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the battle of Actium.