342, Lot: 588. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. AR Denarius (18mm, 2.83 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 179. Laureate head right / Salus seated left, offering a poppy (or branch) held in right hand to snake coiled around altar. RIC III 403; MIR 18, 453-4/30; RSC 968. VF, lightly toned, scratch on cheek, some minor porosity.

From the D. Fagan Collection.