Triton XIX, Lot: 560. Estimate $10000. Sold for $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Marcus Aurelius. As Caesar, AD 139-161. AV Aureus (18.5mm, 6.75 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, AD 148-149. AVRELIVS CAE SAR AVG P II F, bare head right / TR POT III COS II, Fides, draped, standing right, holding two grain ears in lowered right hand and holding basket of fruit on raised left. RIC III 445Aa (Pius); Calicó 1930 (same dies); BMCRE 692 (Pius); Biaggi 874 var. (bust type). EF, lustrous, a few miniscule marks. Portrait struck in high relief.