Triton XIX, Lot: 555. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (18.5mm, 7.28 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 157-158. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P IMP II, bare head right / TR POT XXI C OS IIII, Salus standing right, feeding out of patera serpent held in her arms. RIC III 279b; Strack 327 var. (bust type); Calicó 1683 (same obv. die); BMCRE 904; Biaggi 776. Near EF, lustrous, a few traces of deposits.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection (Stack’s Bowers & Ponterio 174, 11 January 2013), lot 5445; Bowers & Merena (March 1987), lot 804.