370, Lot: 449. Estimate $200. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 22.47 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 147-150. Draped bust right / Venus standing left, holding apple and anchor around which a dolphin is coiled. RIC III 1388b (Pius); Banti 136. VF, dark green patina, some minor deposits.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection, purchased from Malcolm Greenough, May 1984.