Personification of Summer

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 1015. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous issues. Time of Domitian to Antoninus Pius, AD 81-161. Æ Quadrans (3.60 g, 12h). Rome mint. Draped bust of Annius Verus, as the personification of Summer, right, wearing floral wreath / S • C within wreath. RIC II 34; Van Heesch Pl. XXV, 8. Good VF, green and brown patina, minor porosity. Bold portrait.

Van Heesch, in Studia Paulo Naster Oblata I, pp.193-7, distinguishes four types of busts in the series, and connects them with representations of the four seasons. This piece is identified as Summer.