401, Lot: 536. Estimate $200. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 26.41 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 173. Laureate head right / Mercury standing left on pedestal, holding purse and caduceus, within a tetrastyle temple; on tympanum, a tortoise, cock, ram, caduceus, winged helmet, and purse. RIC III 1075; MIR 18, 258-6/30; Banti 256. VF, brown surfaces. Rare.

From the collection of a Texas Wine Doctor. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 58 (19 September 2001), lot 1227.