Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 639. Estimate $20000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. AV Aureus (7.18 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 178. M • AVREL • ANTO-NINVS • AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / TR P XXXII • IMP VIIII COS III P P, Annona standing facing, head left, holding two grain ears over modius containing grain ears in right hand and cornucopia in left; to right, ship’s prow. RIC III 389; MIR 18, 419-2/37; Calicó 2019 (same obv. die as illustration); BMCRE 771. Superb EF, fully lustrous. Struck from fresh dies.

Ex Arthur J. Frank Collection; Jules Furthman Collection (Kosoff, 13 October 1965), no. 122.