Roman Empire Marcus Aurelius AD 161-162 Æ Sestertius Good Very Fine; some roughness to rev., otherwise a fine specimen
Good Very Fine; some roughness to rev., otherwise a fine specimen | ROMAN EMPIRE. Marcus Aurelius.
Bronze sestertius, AD 161-162. Rome.
Obv: IMP CAES M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG P M, bare head right. Rev: SALVTI AVGVSTOR TR P XVI, Salus, draped, standing left, feeding out of patera in right hand snake coiled round altar; S-C across fields, COS III in exergue.
Good Very Fine; some roughness to rev., otherwise a fine specimen.

Reference: RIC III-834; BMCRE-1012 var. (bust type).
Rarity: Extremely Rare variant; unrecorded in BMCRE, no examples cited by OCRE and only 2 others found on CoinArchives.
Provenance: from the Euclidean Collection; acquired from DRG Coins & Antiquities, June 2017.
Die Axis: 5h.
Diameter: 30 mm.
Weight: 20.76 g.
Composition: Bronze.

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