CNG 93, Lot: 1172. Estimate $7500. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.27 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 157-158. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P IMP II, bare head right / TR POT XXI C O S IIII, Salus standing right, feeding out of patera serpent held in her arms. RIC III 279b; Calicó 1683. Near EF, lustrous, minor die breaks in obverse fields, traces of deposits.

From the Robert O. Ebert Collection.