Calicó Plate Coin

Triton XX, Lot: 735. Estimate $20000. Sold for $25000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Aelius. Caesar, AD 136-138. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.45 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 137. L AELIVS CAESAR, bare head right, slight drapery / TRIB POT COS II, PIE–TAS, Pietas standing right before altar, raising right hand and holding box of incense in left. RIC II 444 var. (bust type); Calicó 1448a (this coin illustrated); BMCRE 1003-4 var. (same); Biaggi 90-2 var. (same). EF, underlying luster. Extremely rare with this bust type.

From the Continental Collection. Ex Leu 7 (9 May 1973), lot 376; Ars Classica XVI (3 July 1933), lot 1687.