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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 944. Estimate $7500. 
Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. 
Sold For $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AV Aureus (7.21 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, 147-150 AD. FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL, draped bust right / IV-NO, Juno seated left on stool, feet on footstool, holding young child, who turns to view her, on her right knee with her right hand, and cradling long sceptre in left arm; child standing right before holds up two grain ears to child on knee, who extends right hand to receive them. RIC III 504 (Pius); Strack 492Tc; Calicó 2060; BMCRE 1043 (Pius). EF. Fine tyle.


From a North American Collection. Ex Tony Hardy Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2005), lot 1147; Numismatic Fine Arts XXXIII (3 May 1994), lot 516.