Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 877. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus Pius, with Marcus Aurelius as Caesar. AD 138-161. BI Tetradrachm (12.00 g, 12h). Dated RY 6 (AD 142/3). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Antoninus Pius right / Bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust of Marcus Aurelius right; date across lower field. Köln 1423; Dattari (Savio) 8044 (this coin); K&G 35.189. Good VF, toned, minor porosity.

Ex Bayerische Vereinsbank Münzschätze FPL 8 (December 1974), no. 98; Giovanni Dattari Collection.