MARCUS AURELIUS GOLD AUREUS – RARE TYPE WITH HONOS – XF NGC GRADED ROMAN IMPERIAL COIN OF THE GOOD EMPERORS (Inv. 19927)

$8,700.00

19927. ROMAN EMPIRE. MARCUS AURELIUS, AD 161–180.
Gold Aureus, 6.98 g, 18 mm. Issue of Rome struck while serving as Caesar, AD 140–144.
Obv. AVRELIVS CAE SAR AVG PII F COS, youthful head right. Rev. HONOS, Honos, togate, standing left, holding branch and cornucopia.
RIC III 422 (Antoninus Pius); Calicó 1864 (same dies as illustration); BMCRE 263 (Pius – same dies); Biaggi 852 (same dies)
Ex CNG Triton XIX, 1/7/2019, lot 1104 = Roma XIV, 9/20/2017, lot 749 = CNG 100, 10/7/2015, lot 1888 (realized $ 14,000 hammer).
NGC graded XF, Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5, “edge smoothed,” rare emission with 7 other specimens on CoinArchives.