Unrecorded Variety

205, Lot: 263. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THRACE, Byzantium. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ 29mm (15.02 g, 7h). AVT KAICAP ANTΩNIN, laureate and draped bust right / Torch. Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1382 var. (obv. legend and bust type [bare head right]; unlisted rev. die); Varbanov 1663 var. (same; object on rev. described as a wicker basket); Mouchmov -; RPC Online temp no. 8677 var. (same); Lindgren & Kovacs -; Lindgren III -; MPR II -. Near VF, scratches, hard green encrustation in places. Obverse legend and bust type unrecorded in the standard references for this type.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.