CNG 102, Lot: 965. Estimate $4000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.22 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 143-144. ANTONINVS AVG PI VS P P TR P COS III, laureate head right / IMPERA TOR • II, Jupiter, naked to the waist, seated left on throne, holding thunderbolt in right hand and vertical scepter in left. RIC III 108 var. (break in obv. legend); Strack 125δ; Calicó 1543 var. (same); BMCRE 490; cf. Biaggi 723-5. Near EF.