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LOT 3127
Marcus Aurelius AE Sestertius. AD 161-180.
Rome mint; struck AD 161. IMP CAES M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG P M, laureate head to right, with slight drapery over shoulders / CONCORD AVGVSTOR TR P XV, Marcus Aurelius, togate, on the left, and Lucius Verus, togate, on the right, standing facing each other and clasping their right hands, each holding a scroll in his left hand; S C across fields, COS III in exergue. RIC III 795-797 var. (bust type); Cohen 45-47 var. (same). Very Fine. Tooled. Very rare bust type.(26.55gr, 33mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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