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271, Lot: 81. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 20.28 g, 11h). Rome mint. Struck AD 164. M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG ARMENIACVS P M, laureate head right / VICT AVG TR P XVIII IMP II COS III, Victory standing right, holding trophy in both hands; at feet to right, bound Armenian captive seated right; S C across field. RIC III 890 var. (signum and shield on the rev.); MIR 18, 95-6/30 corr. (Victory advancing right; no captive); Banti 486. Good VF, attractive green patina.


Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 50 (23 June 1999), lot 1542.

Marcus modestly refused the title Armeniacus when it was given to Lucius Verus at the end of AD 163, instead waiting until the following year to accept it.