CNG 108, Lot: 634. Estimate $10000. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.18 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 150 (or later). DIVA FAVSTINA, veiled and draped bust right, with hair bound in pearls / AE-TER-NITAS, Fortuna standing left, holding patera and rudder set on globe. RIC III 349ab (Pius); Beckmann dies AC14/df34; Calicó 1744a; Biaggi 802. EF, attractively toned with some underlying luster.

Ex Hess-Divo 330 (21 May 2016), lot 36 (hammer CHF 11,000).