Lot description:
About Extremely Fine; stunning brown patina | ROMAN EMPIRE. Lucius Verus.
Bronze sestertius, AD 166. Rome.
Obv: L VERVS AVG ARM PARTH MAX, laureate head right. Rev: TR POT VI IMP IIII COS II, Victory, winged and half-draped, standing facing, head right, fixing to a palm-tree a shield inscribed VIC AVG and holding palm sloped upward to right shoulder; S-C across fields.
About Extremely Fine; stunning brown patina.
Reference: RIC III-1436 (Marcus Aurelius) var. (bust type); BMCRE-1308 var. (same).
Rarity: Of the utmost rarity; seemingly one of just 5 known specimens.
Provenance: from the Euclidean Collection; acquired from David Miller, June 2019; ex Archer M. Huntington Collection, Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 327 (28/5/2014), lot 931.
Die Axis: 10h.
Diameter: 32 mm.
Weight: 23.99 g.
Composition: Bronze.
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Estimate: 1000 GBP
Starting price: 500 GBP | |