185, Lot: 294. Estimate $150. Sold for $390. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous issues. Time of Domitian to Antoninus Pius, AD 81-161. Æ Quadrans (18mm, 2.84 g, 6h). Rome mint. Veiled child’s head right, representing winter / SC in wreath of flowers. RIC II 35; J. van Heesch, "Une représentation remarquable des quatre saisons sur semisses de l'époque antoninienne," SPNO I, 1; Vagi 1175. VF, green patina, surfaces smoothed.

Ex Freeman & Sear 14 (11 June 2007), 426.

The head on the obverse has been identified as Annius Verus, a son of Marcus Aurelius (Cohen). Van Heesch, in Studia Paulo Naster Oblata I, pp. 193-197, distinguished four types of busts in the series, and connects them with representations of the four seasons, the bust on this coin being that of Winter.