Matidia, AV Aureus, 21 mm, 7.17 g. 

MATIDIA AVG DIVAE MARCIANAE F, Draped bust right, hair 
elaborately dressed, above which crescent-shaped diadem. 

PIETAS AVGVST, Matidia, as Pietas, standing facing, head 
left, placing hands over Sabina and Matidia at her sides. 

RIC Trajan 759. BMC Trajan 659. C 9. Vagi 1334. Calicó 1157 
(this coin). Kent-Hirmer pl. 78, 274 (this obverse die). 
Biaggi 559 (this coin).

Extremely rare. A few minor marks, otherwise about extremely fine
Ex Glendining 1950, Platt Hall, 1344; Leu 22, 1979, 251 and 
Sotheby’s December 1990, Hunt part III, 77 sales.

With kind permission of Numismatica Ars Classica.
Auction 38, lot 55, sold for 37,000 Swiss Francs, ca. $30,448