CNG 99, Lot: 648. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1. AV Aureus (17mm, 6.60 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 141-146. DIVA AVGVSTA FAVSTINA, veiled and draped bust left, wearing stephane / PIET ΛS ΛVG, Pietas, veiled, standing left, holding acerrum and sacrificing over lighted and garlanded altar to left. RIC III 394c (Pius); Beckmann daf8/PA2; Strack 412 (Pius); Calicó 1795 (same dies); BMCRE –; Biaggi 829 (same obv. die). Good VF, lightly toned, a short, shallow scratch on obverse, a pair of minor scrapes at edge on reverse.