412, Lot: 550. Estimate $1000. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 26.98 g, 11h). Rome mint. Struck AD 164. • M • ΛVREL • ΛNTO NINVS ΛVG P M, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / TR P XVI II IMP II COS III, Minerva standing left, holding olive branch in right hand and leaning on shield set on ground to right; shield resting against her left arm . RIC III 872; MIR 18, 80-6/37; Banti 459 var. (not draped); BMCRE 1079 note. Good VF, dark green patina, a few minor scratches in fields, traces of earthen deposits.

Ex Sternberg XXVIII (with Freeman & Sear, 30 October 1995), lot 126.