Triton XX, Lot: 746. Estimate $5000. Sold for $17000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.34 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 157-158. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P IMP II, laureate and draped bust left / TR POT XXI COS IIII, Salus seated left, cradling scepter in left arm and holding in right hand a patera from which she feeds a serpent rising from altar. RIC III 280; Calicó 1681; BMCRE 907; Biaggi –. EF, lustrous, small mark on cheek.

From the Continental Collection.