The Coin Cabinet Ltd. > The Euclidean CollectionAuction date: 28 March 2024
Lot number: 256

Price realized: 140 GBP   (Approx. 177 USD / 163 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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Lot description:


About Very Fine; smoothed, wonderfully centred | ROMAN EMPIRE. Marcus Aurelius.
Bronze sestertius, AD 161. Rome.
Obv: IMP CAES M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: CONCORD AVGVSTOR TR P XV, Marcus Aurelius, holding scroll and togate, standing right and clasping hands with Lucius Verus, standing left togate; S-C across fields, COS III in exergue.
About Very Fine; smoothed, wonderfully centred.

Reference: RIC III-796 var. (obv. legend and bust type) and 800 var. (denomination and bust type).
Rarity: Of the utmost rarity; unpublished and possibly unique.
Provenance: from the Euclidean Collection; acquired from David Miller, April 2014.
Die Axis: 5h.
Diameter: 34 mm.
Weight: 25.39 g.
Composition: Bronze.

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Estimate: 200 GBP

Starting price: 100 GBP