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Choice Portrait of Aurelius as Caesar

156, Lot: 199. Estimate $500.
Sold for $685. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. As Caesar, AD 139-161. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 27.52 g). Struck AD 160. Bare head right, slight drapery on far shoulder / Mars walking right, carrying spear and trophy. RIC III 1352B(a) (Pius); BMCRE 2104 (Pius); Cohen 760. Good VF, green patina on the obverse, brown patina on the reverse, very minor smoothing in fields.



Ex Classical Numismatic Group 57 (28 March 2001), lot 1282.