Exceptional Portrait

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 319. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Aelius. Caesar, AD 136-138. AR Denarius (3.15 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 137. L AELIVS CAE SAR TR P COS II, bareheaded and draped bust right / CONCOR DIA, Concordia, draped, standing left, holding patera in right hand, double cornucopia in left, leaning left elbow on column. RIC II 428 (Hadrian) var. (bust type); Strack 402; RSC 14a; BMCRE 965, note. EF, toned. Attractive portrait.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 40 (16 May 2007), lot 722.