Triton XVII, Lot: 694. Estimate $20000. Sold for $28000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Aelius. Caesar, AD 136-138. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.41 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Hadrian, AD 137. L · AELIVS CAESAR, bareheaded and draped bust right / TRIB POT COS II, PIE TAS across field, Pietas standing right, holding
acerrum in left hand, sprinkling incense over lighted and garlanded altar with right. RIC II 444 (Hadrian); Strack 399 (Hadrian); Calicó 1448 (same dies as illustration); Biaggi 691; BMCRE 1003. EF, underlying luster.
Ex Numismatica Genevensis SA VI (30 November 2010), lot 167.