366, Lot: 33. Estimate $300. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANCIENT COINS USED IN INDIA & INDIAN IMITATIONS. Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AV Aureus (21mm, 6.96 g, 6h). Indian imitation. (horizontal retrograde S)VΛVUV[...] • VUV(horizontal S)VIICI, draped bust left / VUV(retrograde horizontal S)–U•SV(quadrate C)IIV, two figures standing facing; figure to right with arm around figure to left. Cf. RIC III 682; cf. MIR 18, 13-2a; cf. Calicó 2055 (all refs for type); Turner –; L.A. Adams, “The Indian Imitations of Roman Aurei,” SAN, Vol. XVII, No. 4 (September 1989), Fig. 7 (this coin). Good Fine, small hairline flan crack, two holes for suspension, evidence of later having been placed in a bezel.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams.