406, Lot: 724. Estimate $200. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 27.98 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 171. Laureate head right / Salus standing left, holding scepter and feeding out of patera snake coiled around and rising from an altar to left. RIC III 1009; MIR 18, 212-6/30; Banti 273. Good VF, dark brown patina with traces of green.

From the George Bernert Collection.