MARCUS AURELIUS BRONZE SESTERTIUS – VICTORIA PARTHICA ISSUE EX W.C. BOYD AND CALVERT COLLECTION SOLD BY SOTHEBY’S IN 1897 – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED ROMAN IMPERIAL COIN (Inv. 20149)

$3,500.00

20149. ROMAN EMPIRE. MARCUS AURELIUS, AD 161–180.
Bronze Sestertius, 21.71 g, 29 mm. Issue of Rome, Summer –December, AD 166.
Obv. M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG ARM PARTH MAX, head of Marcus Aurelius right. Rev. TR P[OT XX] IMP IIII COS III / S – C, Victoria standing, holding palm and resting hand on shield inscribed VIC PAR set on palm tree with arms below.
RIC III 931; Cohen 807.
Ex William C. Boyd Collection, Baldwin’s Auctions 42, 9/26/2005, lot 446 = ex Calvert Collection, Sotheby’s 3/26/1897, lot 49 (with old ticket listing Calvert provenance).
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 5/5.