MARCUS AURELIUS BRONZE SESTERTIUS – GERMAN VICTORY ISSUE EX SIR ARTHUR EVANS AND PUBLISHED IN BANTI – GOOD VF ROMAN IMPERIAL COIN (Inv. 19118)

$5,800.00

19118. ROMAN EMPIRE. MARCUS AURELIUS, AD 161–180.
Bronze Sestertius, 25.71 g, 32 mm. Issue of Rome, AD 173.
Obv. M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXVII, laureate head of Marcus Aurelius right. Rev. GERMANICO AVG IMP VI COS III, trophy with captured arms, a captive German woman seated left below, while a German warrior, hands bound, stands at right, S-C in field.
RIC III 1062 var. (S C in exergue); Banti, I Grandi Bronzi Imperiali, 102 (this coin).
Ex Libertas collection, acquired in 1985 = ex Sir Arthur J. Evans Collection, Ars Classica XVII, 10/3/1934, lot 1473.
Good VF, light brown patina.