CNG 88, Lot: 1347. Estimate $750. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 23.77 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 147-150. Draped bust right, wearing hair bound by strand of pearls with locks on forehead / Venus standing left, holding apple and anchor, around which a dolphin is coiled. RIC III 1388c (Pius); Banti 137. Good VF, attractive brown patina, some red, areas of minor roughness. Artistic portrait of Faustina. Rarer variety with locks of hair on forehead.

Ex Leu 91 (10 May 2004), lot 572.