Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 1563. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MARCUS AURELIUS. 161-180 AD. Æ Medallion (40mm, 51.78 gm). Struck 168 AD. M ANTONINVS AVG ARM PARTH MAX, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / TR P XXII IMP IIII COS III, Jupiter standing facing, holding thunderbolt and sceptre; Aurelius and Verus flanking him below. Gnecchi 52 (pl. 63, 3 -- this coin illustrated); MIR 18, 1040-1/37; Cohen 886. Choice VF, dark brown patina. Very rare. ($7500)

From the Tony Hardy Collection. Ex Leu 71 (24 October 1997), lot 405; Niklovitz Collection (Hamburger, 19 October 1925), lot 1076; Berlin Cabinet (deaccessioned as duplicate in 1910).