Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 1031. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (25.15 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 145-147. Laureate head right / Antoninus Pius standing left in ornamented car, driving slow quadriga left, extending hand and holding eagle-tipped scepter. RIC III 767a; Banti 120. Good VF, two-tone light brown and gray-brown patina, traces of smoothing. Attractive portrait. Wonderful reverse type.