Triton XIX, Lot: 548. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.14 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 141. ANTONINVS PI VS P P TR P COS III, bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / LIBERΛLITΛS/ ΛVG II in two lines in exergue, Antoninus, togate, seated left on chair set on low platform in center; to left on platform, Liberalitas, draped, standing left, with both hands emptying coins out of cornucopia into the fold of a toga, held out in both hands by citizen, togate, standing right on the ground. RIC III 74b; Strack 92; Calicó 1560; BMCRE 216 (same dies); Biaggi 734 var. (bust type). Good VF, a few shallow marks. Rare.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 55 (13 September 2000), lot 1254; Münzen und Medaillen AG 53 (29 November 1977), lot 270.