313, Lot: 269. Estimate $150. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. Æ Dupondius (23mm, 8.06 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 177. [M ANT]ONINVS AVG GERM SARM TRP XXXI, radiate head right / FELICITATI/AVG P P in two lines in field, IMP VIII COS III above and around, S C across field, galley rowed right by four oarsmen: in the stern is an arched cabin under a curved aplustre and Neptune standing right, foot on a rock, holding trident and dolphin. RIC III 1193; MIR 18, 378-8/50. VF, green patina, light roughness.

From the Simon Shipp Collection.