★ Ex Platt Hall and Consul Weber Collections – Pedigreed to 1909 ★

Lucius Verus. AD 161-169. Æ Medallion (41mm, 49.93 g, 10h). Rome mint. Struck AD 168. L • VERVS ΛVG ΛRM PΛRTH MΛX, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / TR P VIII • IMP IIII COS III, Large figure of Jupiter, nude, standing facing, holding thunderbolt in right hand and vertical scepter in left, in the act of protecting Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus to left and right, each bareheaded and togate, standing facing, heads turned toward Jupiter. Gnecchi II, 22 ( this coin referenced ); MIR 18, 1040-11/38 ( the obverse of this coin illustrated on pl. 1 ); Banti 185 ( this coin illustrated and referenced ); Cohen 309. Reddish-brown patina, minor roughness. Good VF. Extremely rare.

Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG XXVIII (19 June 1964), lot 376; Henry Platt Hall Collection (Part II, Glendining’s, 16 November 1950), lot 1575; Monsieur B. Collection (Ciani, 1 June 1920), lot 430; Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber Collection (J. Hirsch XXIV, 10 May 1909), lot 1685.