Lucius Verus (161-169), Medallion, Rome, AD 167-168
AE (g 50,00; mm 41; h 11)
L VERVS AVG ARM PARTH MAX, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust r., Rv. TR P VIII IMP IIII - COS III, Jupiter standing l., with drapery over his arms, holding a thunderbolt over a togate figure of Marcus Aurelius, and holding a long scepter over a togate figure of Lucius Verus. Banti 185 (this specimen); Gnecchi 22 (this specimen cited); C 185.
Very rare, brownish patina, about extremely fine.
Ex Consul E.F. Weber Collection; J. Hirsch 24, 10 May 1909, lot 1685.