Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 623. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (7.20 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 150-151. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XIIII, laureate head right / LAETITIA COS IIII, on left, Ceres standing right, holding two grain ears in right hand; on right, Proserpina standing facing, head left, holding pomegranate in left hand. RIC III 199c; Strack 224; Calicó 1556; BMCRE 725. Good VF, small edge mark at 7 o’clock on reverse.