445, Lot: 448. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (17mm, 7.05 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 157-158. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P IMP II, Laureate head right / TR POT XXI COS IIII, Salus draped, standing right, feeding a snake held in her left hand, from a patera, held in her right. RIC III 279; Calicó 1684; BMCRE 905; Biaggi 777. VF, light deposits on reverse, ex jewelry with surface and edge marks.

From a European collection formed prior to the First World War.