Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1485. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MARCUS AURELIUS. 161-180 AD. Orichalcum Sestertius (28.10 g, 11h). Struck 163 AD. IMP CAES M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG P M, laureate head right / SALVTI AVGVSTOR TR P XVII, COS III in exergue, S C across field, Salus standing left, holding sceptre in left hand, patera in right from which she feeds a snake coiled about altar to left. RIC III 843; MIR 54-6/30; Banti 286; BMCRE 1038; Cohen 564. Good VF, dark green-brown patina, light smoothing. ($750)

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection. Ex Geissener Münzhandlung 69 (18 November 1994), lot 612.