345, Lot: 489. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.03 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 147-150. Draped bust right, band of pearls around her head / Venus standing left, holding apple and rudder entwined by dolphin. RIC III (Pius) 517c; Calicó 2094 (same dies, dolphin not described on the rudder). VF, ex jewelry, whizzed with areas of smoothing, edge marks. Lovely portrait.