CNG 97, Lot: 665. Estimate $500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 24.29 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 141-143. Laureate head right / Salus standing left, holding scepter and feeding from patera serpent coiled around and rising from lighted altar to left. RIC III 635; Banti 340. Good VF, dark gray and red-brown surfaces, some green.

From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.11091.