Triton XIX, Lot: 557. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. As Caesar, AD 139-161. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.24 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, AD 140-144. AVRELIVS CAE SAR AVG P II F COS, bare head left / IVVEN TAS, Juventas, draped, standing left, holding patera in left hand and with right dropping a grain of incense on candelabrum to left. RIC III 423b (Pius); Calicó 1875 (same obv. die); BMCRE 268, note (Pius); Biaggi 857 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned, underlying luster, a small edge mark.