Triton XVII, Lot: 705. Estimate $5000. Sold for $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (19mm, 6.50 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 159-160. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XXIII, bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PIETATI AVG COS IIII, Pietas standing facing, head left, holding globe in extended right hand and child in her left arm; a child standing to either side, grasping her tunic. RIC III 302 var. (without cuirass); Strack 365; Calicó 1601a; Biaggi 750 var. (child to the left of Pietas does not hold her tunic); BMCRE 983 var. (same). Near EF, underlying luster.