Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 622. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (7.06 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 145-161. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P, bare-headed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / TR POT COS IIII, Roma seated left, holding palladium in right hand and vertical spear in left, round shield at side. RIC III 147 corr. (palladium not Victory); Strack 143; Calicó 1654c; BMCRE 555. Near EF, hairline flan crack, minor flan flaw at top edge, light scratches on reverse.