MARCUS AURELIUS AE SESTERTIUS BY COMMODUS
RIC 660, RSC 94, Near Very Fine, 31.1mm, 23.12 grams, Struck Circa. 180 C.E., Rome Mint
Obverse: DIVVS M ANTONINVS PIVS around bare head of Marcus Aurelius to right
Reverse: "Divus" Marcus Aurelius, raising his right hand and holding scepter in his left, seated to left on the back of an eagle flying to right, holding thunderbolt in its talons CONSECRATIO around, S C across fields
Ex: Jonathan Kern with tag stating coin from Sotheby Parke Bernet Auction, Lot 310 (part of). (Sotheby Parke Bernet was the earlier name of the firm now known as Sotheby's in the 1970's after it bought out Parke Bernet.)
Ex: Justice Frederic Rockwell Sanborn with his original handwritten tag (pictured). Purchased in 1955
Frederic Rockwell Sanborn (1899 - 1973) was a prolific Federal judge and expert in international law. He represented the United States on the Supreme Restitution Court of Berlin after War Two. He received a Bachelors, Masters and law degree at Columbia University, and a Doctorate at Oxford.
