399, Lot: 532. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.28 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Marcus Aurelius, circa AD 165-170. Draped bust right, wearing circlet of pearls around head / Salus seated left, resting elbow on throne and feeding out of patera serpent coiled around and rising from altar to left. RIC III 714a (Aurelius); MIR 18, 29-4b; RSC 196a. EF, toned, hairline flan crack.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind.