From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008.



                  Lot # 434 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$12500 / Price 
                  Realized: US$17000 
                  Lucius Verus. Gold aureus 



             



            Lucius Verus. (161-169 AD). Gold aureus (7.27 gm). Rome, 164 AD. L 
            VERVS AVG ARMENIACVS, head bare right / REX ARMEN DAT in exergue, TR 
            P IIII IMP II COS II around, Lucius Verus, flanked by lictor 
            shouldering fasces before him and another attendant standing behind 
            him, seated left on lamp chair on platform, extending right hand to 
            crown Armenian king, who stands left before platform, raising his 
            right hand to guide the crown onto his head. BMCRE 300. RIC 512 
            (R2). Cohen 158 (100 Fr.). Calico 2154 (same dies). Slight abrasion 
            before face of Verus, otherwise nearly mint state. 

            Verus had been victorious in Armenia the year before, 163, accepting 
            an imperatorial acclamation and the title Armeniacus. Now in 164 the 
            coins show him investing the Roman nominee Sohaemus as king of 
            Armenia, with the legend “a king given to the Armenians.” The same 
            obverse die was also used with the type Victory inscribing VIC AVG 
            onto shield set on palm tree, BMCRE 294, pl. 58.9. 




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  ... Lot 434 sold for high bid of $17000 [ $19550, or approx 13489.5 EUR, 9970.5 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 

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