CNG 105, Lot: 915. Estimate $500. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lucius Verus. AD 161-169. Æ Sestertius (32.5mm, 22.48 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 166. Laureate head right / Victory standing right, holding palm frond and fixing to palm tree shield inscribed VIC/PAR in two lines. RIC III 1456 (Aurelius); MIR 18, 142-16/30; Banti 140. VF, brown surfaces, minor roughness in obverse field.

Ex Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 50, 23 June 1999), lot 218, with an old French collection ticket.