Triton XX, Lot: 748. Estimate $30000. Sold for $45000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Divus Antoninus Pius. Died AD 161. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.36 g, 5h). Commemorative issue. Rome mint. Struck under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, circa AD 161. DIVVS ANTONINVS, bare head right / CONSECRATIO, four-tiered funeral pyre surmounted by facing quadriga. RIC III 435 (Aurelius); Calicó 1491; BMCRE 55 (Aurelius and Verus); Biaggi 792. Superb EF, lustrous.

From the Continental Collection.