Triton XVIII, Lot: 1128. Estimate $400. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.34 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Marcus Aurelius, circa AD 165-170. FΛVSTINΛ ΛVGVSTΛ, draped bust right, wearing stephane, hair waved and fastened in bun on back of head / S Λ LVS, Salus, draped, seated left on throne, resting left elbow on arm of throne, and feeding out of patera in right hand snake coiled around and rising from altar to left. RIC III 714 (Aurelius); MIR 18, 29-4c; RSC 195; BMCRE 148-50 (Aurelius and Verus) var. (breaks in rev. legend). EF.