Ex De Barros and Vermeule Collections

431, Lot: 424. Estimate $150. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lucius Verus. AD 161-169. Æ As (25.7mm, 9.29 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 163. Laureate head right / Galley with five oarsmen left, hortator at stern. RIC III 1335 var. (bust type); MIR 18, 50-19/30. VF, dark green patina with touches of red.

Ex Pegasi Auctions XXXVIII (22 May 2018), lot 524; Alexandre de Barros Ship Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 73, 13 September 2006), lot 632; Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection (Triton III, 1 December 1999), lot 1711 (part of; misdescribed as RIC III 1131 var.).