Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 620. Estimate $6000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. As Caesar, AD 138. AV Aureus (6.86 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck under Hadrian, AD 138. IMP • T AEL • CAES ANTONINVS, bare head right / TRIB POT CO-S, PIE-TAS across field, Pietas standing right, raising right hand, holding box of incense in left; lighted altar to right. RIC II 454a (Hadrian); Strack 406 (Hadrian); Calicó 1596; Kent & Hirmer pl. 87, 302 (same dies); NAC 31, lot 148 (same dies); BMCRE 1017 (Hadrian). Good VF, a few shallow contact marks. Rare as Caesar.