Sale: Triton X, Lot: 644. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. Æ As (10.26 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, circa AD 147-150. FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, draped bust right / VE-NVS, S C across field, Venus standing facing, head right, drawing back cloak with right hand over right shoulder and holding apple in extended left hand. RIC III 1410a (Pius); BMCRE 2169 (Pius) var. (no break in obv. legend); Cohen 258. Near EF, dark green and red patina. An artistic portrait.