CNG 96, Lot: 806. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.16 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 147-148. ΛNTONINVS ΛVG PIVS P P TR P XI, laureate bust right, wearing aegis / COS IIII, VO TΛ across field, Antoninus Pius standing left, holding volumen and sacrificing out of patera over lighted tripod-altar to left. RIC III 170 var. (bust type); Strack 186 (unrecorded bust type); Calicó 1695 (same dies as illustration); BMCRE 629 var. (bust type); Biaggi –. Near EF, underlying luster.