Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 126Auction date: 28 May 2024
Lot number: 797

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Marcus Aurelius. As Caesar, AD 139-161. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 7.05 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Antoninus Pius, AD 148-149. AVRELIVS CAESAR AVG P II F, Bareheaded and cuirassed bust right, wearing gorgon on cuirass / TR POT III COS II, Fides, draped, standing right, holding two grain ears in lowered right hand and dish of fruit on raised left hand. RIC III –; Calicó – Strack 199 (same obv. die as illustration); BMCRE –; Leu 86, lot 861 (same dies). Obverse scratch, hairlines. VF. Apparently the fourth known with the gorgon on cuirass (the others: Munich 183854; Leu 86, 861; and NAC 131, 40).

From the Wayne Scheible Collection.


Estimate: 3000 USD