CNG 111, Lot: 707. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (18mm, 6.63 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 158-159. ΛNTONINVS ΛVG PIVS P P TR P XXII, laureate head right / VOTΛ SOL DEC II around, COS IIII in exergue, Antoninus Pius, veiled, togate, standing left, sacrificing out of patera in right hand over tripod-altar to left and holding volumen in left hand; beside altar, prostrate bull. RIC III 291a; Strack 341δ; Calicó 1701; BMCRE 944-5; Biaggi –; Jameson –; Mazzini –. Good VF, lustrous, light graffiti on obverse.