Triton XVI, Lot: 1087. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 26.86 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 140-143. ANTONINVS AVG PI VS P P TR P COS III, laureate head right / SAL VS • AVG, S C across field, Salus standing left, holding patera in right hand, from which she feeds a serpent entwined about a light altar, and scepter in left. RIC III 635; Strack 854; Banti 340; BMCRE 1305-1306 var. (rev.legend). EF, attractive brown and tan patina. Wonderful portrait coin.

From the RCM Collection. Ex Forestier (8 June 2007), lot 98.