Triton XVII, Lot: 726. Estimate $500. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. Æ As (27mm, 9.86 g, 11h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 147-150. [FA]VSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, draped bust right, hair fastened in bun at back of head, wearing a single circlet / VENE[RI] GENETRICI, S C across field, Venus standing facing, head left, holding apple in her extended right hand, cradling swaddled infant in her left arm. RIC III 1407 (Pius); Strack 1306 (Pius); BMCRE 2159* (Pius) var. (wearing stephane); . EF, dark brown patina, smoothed and lightly tooled.