Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1147. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FAUSTINA JUNIOR, daughter of Antoninus Pius and wife of Marcus Aurelius. Augusta 147-175 AD. AV Aureus (7.21 gm, 7h). Struck 147-150 AD. FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, draped bust right / IV-NO, Juno seated left on stool, feet on footstool, holding young child, who turns to view her, on her right knee with her right hand, and cradling long sceptre in left arm; child standing right before holds up two grain ears to child on knee, who extends right hand to receive them. RIC III 504 (Antoninus Pius); Strack 492Tc; BMCRE 1043 (Antoninus Pius); Calicó 2060; Cohen 129. EF. ($5000)

From the Tony Hardy Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXXIII (3 May 1994), lot 516.