CNG 99, Lot: 655. Estimate $10000. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.04 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 163. • M • ΛNTONINVS ΛVG IMP II, bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SΛLVTI ΛVGVSTOR TR P XVII around, COS III in exergue, Salus standing left, holding scepter and feeding out of patera snake coiled around and rising from altar to left. RIC III 75; MIR 18, 65-2/17; Calicó 1913 = Biaggi 866 (same dies); BMCRE 228. EF, lustrous.