Triton XVII, Lot: 708. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Senior. Augusta, AD 138-140/1. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.10 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 138-141. FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, draped bust right, 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 / IVNONI REGINAE, Juno standing left, holding patera in extended right hand, scepter in left; to left, peacock standing left, head right. RIC III 338; Strack 403; Calicó 1791 (same obv. die); Biaggi –; BMCRE 137; cf. CNG 60, lot 1702 (same obv. die). VF, underlying luster.