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Triton XVII, Lot: 707. Estimate $5000.
Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Senior. Augusta, AD 138-140/1. AV Aureus (17mm, 6.68 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, AD 138-139. FAVSTINA AVG ANTONINI AVG P P, draped bust left, wearing hair elaborately waved and coiled, with bands across the head, and drawn up at the back and piled in a round coil on top / VESTA, Vesta, veiled, seated left, holding palladium in her extended right hand, cradling scepter in left arm. RIC III 334 (Pius); Strack 399; Calicó 1807; Biaggi –; BMCRE 47 (Pius, same dies). Good VF. Extremely rare.