164, Lot: 159. Estimate $100. Sold for $235. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 31.11 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 143-144. Laureate head right / Fides standing right, holding grain ears and basket of fruit. RIC III 716a; BMCRE 1608; Cohen 426. VF, green and brown surfaces, broad medallic flan, some roughness. Pius was acclaimed imperator for the second time following the victory of Q. Lollius Urbicus over the Brigantes in Britain, and the construction of the Antonine Wall.

Ex Garth R. Drewry Collection (CNG E87), lot 99; Frederick S. Knobloch Collection (Stack's, 1-3 May 1980), lot 644.