Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 635. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $17000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. AV Aureus (7.34 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 166. M ANTONINVS AVG ARM PARTH MAX, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / TR P XX IMP IIII COS III, Victory standing facing, head right, holding palm frond in right hand, resting left on round shield, inscribed VIC/PAR in two lines, set on palm tree. RIC III 160; MIR 18, 141-2/37; Calicó 1992; BMCRE 405. Superb EF, underlying luster, traces on deposits on reverse and edge.

Ex Leu 91 (10 May 2004), lot 567.