349, Lot: 295. Estimate $150. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLANDS off CILICIA, Elaeussa Sebaste. Marcus Aurelius & Lucius Verus. AD 161-169. Æ (23mm, 8.21 g, 12h). Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus standing facing one another, clasping hands; star-in-crescent between / Turreted, veiled, and draped bust of Fortuna right. RPC IV online 4921.1 = SNG France 1168 = von Aulock, KM I 4 = RG 1 (as Sebaste in Paphlagonia; same rev. die). Near VF, brown patina, some roughness. Very rare, with RPC citing only two other specimens.

From the Dr. George Spradling Collection. Ex J. S. Wagner Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 201, 17 December 2008), lot 230 (attributed to Pompeiopolis [Sebaste] in Paphlagonia).