Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 930. Estimate $300. Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006. Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. Æ Sestertius (24.17 g, 6h). Struck circa AD 161-164. Draped bust right, wearing two strings of pearls in hair; bun adorned with pearls / Hilaritas standing left, holding palm branch and cornucopia. RIC III 1642 (Aurelius) var. (one circlet of pearls); MIR 18, 15-6b; Banti 66. Good VF, choice warm-brown patina.
Ex Spink 120 (9-10 July 1997), lot 158.