294, Lot: 702. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.37 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 147-150. Draped bust right, with strings of pearls in hair / Venus standing facing, head left, holding apple and dolphin-entwined rudder. RIC III 517c (Pius); RSC 266a. EF, lightly toned. High relief.

From the RCM Collection. Ex Gemini II (10 January 2006), lot 479.