Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. AV Aureus (18.5mm, 7.19 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 163. IMP M ΛNTONINVS ΛVG, bareheaded, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SΛLVTI ΛVGVSTOR TR P XVII, COS III in exergue, Salus, draped, standing left, holding scepter in left hand, and feeding out of patera in right hand a snake coiled around and rising from altar to left. RIC III 77; MIR 18, 54-2/17; Calicó 1915; BMCRE 226-7; Biaggi 867; Jameson –; Mazzini 560. A few shallow scratches on reverse, slight wave in flan. VF.
Ex MACM inventory MMoCA48C; CNG inventory 857142 (29 September 2009).
