CNG 102, Lot: 999. Estimate $4000. Sold for $3005. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AV Aureus (19mm, 6.93 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Aurelius and Verus, AD 161-164. FΛVSTINΛ ΛVGVSTΛ, draped bust right / SΛLVTI ΛVGVSTΛE, Salus seated left on throne, resting elbow on arm of throne and feeding out of patera a snake coiled around and rising from altar to left. RIC III 716 (Aurelius); MIR 18, 30-2(b); Calicó 2073a var. (obv. legend); BMCRE 151-2 var. (same); Biaggi 935 var. (same). VF, some luster.