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Triton XIV, Lot: 733. Estimate $5000.
Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.11 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 152-153. FAVSTINA AVG PII AVG FIL, Draped bust left, the hair is elaborately dressed in horizontal waves, coiled at back on head, in a chignon, fastened with pearls / CONCOR DIA, dove advancing right. RIC 503 (Pius); Strack 84; Calicó 2044 (same dies as illustration); BMCRE 1090 (Pius). Good VF, toned, underlying luster. Elegant portrait.


Ex Classical Numismatic Group 66 (19 May 2004), lot 1512.