Freeman & Sear - Gemini I, Session 2

Lot: 391

ROMAN EMPIRE: Manlia Scantilla, wife of Didius Julianus. 
Augusta, AD 193. AV aureus (6.73 gm).

ROMAN EMPIRE. Manlia Scantilla (wife of Didius 
Julianus). Gold aureus (6.73 gm). Rome. MANL SCA-NTILLA 
AVG, draped bust right / IVNO REGINA, Juno standing 
left, holding patera and scepter, peacock at her feet. 
BMCRE 10. Cohen 1 (1,000 Fr.). RIC 7a (R4). Extremely 
rare. Good very fine 

Ex Hess-Leu, 7 April 1960, lot 352; ex Feuardent, 26 May 
1914, lot 440. 

Woodward, in "Coinage of Didius Julianus," NC 1961, pp. 
76-77, found three obverse and five reverse dies for 
aurei of Scantilla, and cites this very coin, which he 
knew from the 1960 Hess-Leu sale, as proof of the 
combination Obverse die 3/Reverse die E. 
Estimated Value: $ 27,500 

...Sold for $24,000 USD [ approx 18240 EUR, 12720 GBP ] plus 15% buyers fee. 

Gemini I Auction Closed Jan 11-12, 2005. 

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