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434, Lot: 377. Estimate $750.
Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. Æ Sestertius (32.5mm, 25.52 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 177. Laureate head right / Aurelius and Commodus seated left on raised platform, each extending right hand; before them, Liberalitas standing facing, head left, holding abacus and cornucopia; behind them, officer standing left; on far left, a citizen standing on steps, holding out fold of toga. RIC III 1208; MIR 18, 380-6/30; Banti 219. Good VF, Tiber patina with some black, roughness. Rare.


Ex Tony Hardy Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 120, 10 August 2005), lot 193 (hammer $1502).