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Auction X  13 January 2013
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Lot 575

Estimate: 4000 USD
Price realized: 10 000 USD
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Lucius Verus. 161-169 AD. Sestertius, 25.77g. (11h). Rome, 164 AD. Obv: L AVREL VERVS AVG - ARMENIACVS Bust laureate, cuirassed right. Rx: REX ARMEN / DAT in two lines in exergue, TR P IIII - IMP II COS II around, S - C in field, Verus seated left on camp seat on platform, resting left hand on parazoium at his hip and extending right hand to crown the Armenian King Sohaemus, who stands left before the platform, raising his right hand to his head to accept the diadem; behind Verus on the platform, two officers, and in front of him, lictor standing left holding fasces. Rev. var. of BM 1106 and RIC 1371 (there lictor standing right). Cohen 161 (30 Fr.). Well centered on round flan, reddish-brown patina. Choice EF.

Ex Numismatica Genevensis 6, 30 November 2010, lot 177; ex Egger XLIII, 14 April 1913, [Herzfelder], lot 1211.
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