Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection
Triton XX, Lot: 767. Estimate $10000. Sold for $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Lucilla. Augusta, AD 164-182. AV Aureus (20.5mm, 7.25 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, AD 161-162. LVCILLΛE ΛVG ΛNTONINI ΛVG F, draped bust right / V E NVS, Venus, draped, standing left, holding apple in extended right hand and scepter in left. RIC III 783 (Aurelius); MIR 18, 16-2(a); Calicó 2218 (same obv. die as illustration); BMCRE 320-1 (Aurelius); Biaggi 978 (same obv. die as illustration). EF, lustrous, minor inclusion on obverse, a few shallow scratches on reverse.
Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s New York, 21 June 1990), lot 750.