Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1069. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Aelius. Caesar, AD 136-138. Æ Sestertius (26.69 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 137. Bare-headed and draped bust right, seen from the front / Concordia seated left, feet on footstool, holding patera and leaning arm on cornucopia set on seat. RIC II 1057 var. (Aelius seen from back); Banti 6. Good VF, brown patina, some porosity. Wonderful portrait. Extremely rare obverse variety, the only other recorded example comes from Naville II (12 June 1922), lot 779.

Ex John F. Sullivan Collection (Triton IX, 11 January 2006), lot 1471.