Triton XVIII, Lot: 1111. Estimate $5000. Sold for $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.24 g, 6h). Consecration issue. Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 146-161. DIVA FAVSTINA, draped bust right, wearing hair bound in pearls / AVGV STA, Ceres, veiled and draped, standing left, holding torch in each hand. RIC III 357a (Pius); Strack 471; Calicó 1758 = Biaggi 807; BMCRE 405 (Pius); Morgan 139 (this coin). EF, toned.

Ex Myron Stepath Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 40, 4 December 1996), lot 1523; J. Pierpont Morgan Collection (Stack's, 14 September 1983), lot 82; Strozzi Collection (Sangiorgi, 15 April 1907), lot 1914.