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Triton XIX Sessions 1 & 2  5 January 2016
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Lot 568

Estimate: 7500 USD
Price realized: 8500 USD
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Marcus Aurelius. AD 161-180. AV Aureus (18mm, 6.68 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 164. • M • ΛNTONINVS ΛVG ΛRMEN P M, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / TR P XVIII IMP II COS III, Victory, winged, naked to waist, standing right, setting round shield, inscribed VIC/ ΛVG in two lines, on palm tree to right. RIC III –; MIR 18, 93-2/37; Calicó 1991; BMCRE p. 422, §; cf. Biaggi 896 (same obv. die). Near EF, significant luster remains. Footnote § in BMCRE p. 422, citing two in the Diarbekir Hoard–one with this bust type, the other without drapery. Extremely rare. Apparently the second known example with this bust type, lacking any illustration in Calicó.

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