Triton XIX, Lot: 571. Estimate $20000. Sold for $25000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.31 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 178. M • AVREL • ANTO NINVS • AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / TR P XXXII • IMP VIIII COS III • P P, Annona, draped, standing left, holding two grain ears in lowered right hand over modius filled with grain ears to left, and holding cornucopia in left hand; prow of ship to right. RIC III 389; MIR 18, 419-2/37; Calicó 2019 (same dies); BMCRE 771; Biaggi 905. Superb EF, lightly toned, underlying luster.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Davissons 7 (21 August 1996), lot 1 (title page coin).