CNG 99, Lot: 651. Estimate $5000. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. As Caesar, AD 139-161. AV Aureus (18.5mm, 6.78 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, AD 140-144. AVRELIVS CAE SAR AVG P II F COS, bare head left / IVVEN TAS, Juventas standing left, holding patera and dropping a grain of incense on candelabrum to left. RIC III 423a (Pius); Calicó 1875 = Biaggi 857 (same obv. die); BMCRE 268, note (Pius). Near EF, underlying luster, a pair of ligth scratches on reverse.