Gemini III, January 9th, 2007. Lot 402.
   
Marcus Aurelius as Caesar. (138-161 AD). Gold aureus (7.25 g). Rome, 149-150 AD. 

AVRELIVS CAESAR AVG PII F, bare-headed, draped bust right.
PIETAS TR POT III COS II, Pietas standing left, extending 
her right hand over a girl standing left at her feet, looking up at Pietas and extending her right arm; Pietas 
carries the second child, a facing naked boy, in her left arm. 

Cohen 443 (80 Fr., citing Caylus). BMCRE p. 101 (citing Cohen). RIC 449. Calico 1882 (no illustration). 

The Paris aureus was melted down after Napoleon's 1831 robbery. That Paris aureus is known only from Cohen’s 
description and from a sketch of its reverse in the ca. 1760 
work by Caylus on the Roman gold coins in the French royal collection, pl. 26, 537. 

Sold for $27500 [ $31625, or approx 24446.12 EUR, £16,128.75

Re-used by permission of Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com) 
and Freeman & Sear