313, Lot: 270. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. Æ As (25mm, 9.51 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 177. M ANTONINVS AVG GERM SARM TRP XXXI, laureate head right / [IMP] VIII above, FELICITATI/AVG P P in two lines in field, COS III in exergue, S C across field, galley rowed right by three oarsmen: in the stern is Neptune standing right, foot on a rock, holding trident and aplustre. RIC III 1195; MIR 18, 378-9/30. VF, green patina, earthen deposits.

From the Simon Shipp Collection.