Triton XXI, Lot: 762. Estimate $7500. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.34 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 151-152. IMP CAES T AEL HADR ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P, bare head right / TR POT XV COS IIII, Antoninus Pius, togate, standing left, holding globe in extended right hand and volumen in left at side. RIC III 213; Strack 235α; Calicó 1663; BMCRE 743 (same obv. die); Biaggi 768. Superb EF, toned. Exceptional portrait of artistic merit.