313, Lot: 272. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lucius Verus. AD 161-169. Æ Dupondius (25mm, 10.43 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 163. IMP CAES L AVREL VERVS AVG, radiate head right / FELIC AVG TRP III around above, COS II in exergue, S C across field, galley rowed right by five oarsmen: in the stern is a hortator and an arched cabin under a curved aplustre; on helm, acrostolium and sail. RIC III 1337 var. (without sail); MIR 18, 50-18/50. VF, dark gray-green patina, porosity.

From the Simon Shipp Collection.