392, Lot: 549. Estimate $300. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Divus Marcus Aurelius. Died AD 180. Æ Sestertius (30.5mm, 25.65 g, 6h). Consecration issue. Rome mint. Struck under Commodus, AD 180. Bare head right / Marcus Aurelius, holding Victory, seated right on chair within shrine set on cart drawn right by quadriga of elephants, with drivers. RIC III 661 (Commodus); MIR 18, 488-6/10; Banti 52. Good VF, dark gray and brown surfaces, some smoothing.

From the Collection of a Director.