CNG 99, Lot: 657. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AV Aureus (18mm, 6.63 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Marcus Aurelius, AD 161-176. FΛVSTINΛ ΛVGVSTΛ, draped bust right / SΛLVTI ΛVGVSTΛE, Salus seated left on throne, resting elbow on arm of throne and feeding out of patera snake coiled around and rising from altar to left. RIC III 716 (Aurelius); MIR 18, 30-2(b); Calicó 2073b (same rev. die); BMCRE 151-2 (Aurelius and Verus); Biaggi 935. Good VF, considerable luster, tiny mark near edge on reverse.