Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1515. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCIUS VERUS. 161-169 AD. AV Aureus (7.25 gm). Struck 163 AD. Bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust left, seen from behind / Salus standing half-left, holding transverse sceptre and feeding serpent entwined around altar from patera. RIC III 496 (Marcus) var. (bust right); MIR 18, 54-12/17 var. (same); BMCRE -; Cohen -; Calicó 2165 (same obverse die). Near VF. Rare bust left. ($2500)