454, Lot: 370. Estimate $4000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lucius Verus. AD 161-169. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.18 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 165. L VERVS ΛVG ΛRMENIΛCVS, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / TR P V • IMP II COS II, Victory, winged, naked to waist, standing right, holding stylus in right hand and with left placing a shield inscribed VIC/ AVG in two lines on palm tree. RIC III 534; MIR 18, 106-12/37; Calicó 2179 (same dies as illustration); BMCRE 383 (same obv. die); Biaggi 962 var. (not draped; same obv. die as 963). Some die rust on obverse, contact marks scratches, marks on edge. VF, the reverse Near VF.