295, Lot: 417. Estimate $100. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ As (25mm, 11.04 g, 6h). Rome mint (or mint in Britain?). Struck AD 154-155. Laureate head right / BRITANNIA COS IIII, S C in exergue, Britannia seated left on rock, propping head on right hand and placing left hand on rock, in attitude of mourning; large round shield with central spike and transverse vexillum projecting upwards to left. RIC III 934. VF, brown and green patina, roughness.

From the Bruce R. Brace Collection.