CNG 100, Lot: 1878. Estimate $10000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (18.5mm, 6.67 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 150-151. ANTONINVS PI VS P P TR P XIIII, laureate bust right, slight drapery / LAET I T IA, COS IIII in exergue, Ceres standing right, holding two grain ears; at her right side, Proserpina standing left, holding pomegranate. RIC III 199 var. (bust type); Strack 224; Calicó 1559a (same obv. die); BMCRE 724, note; Biaggi 733 var. (break in rev. legend). Near EF, underlying luster, traces of deposits on obverse.