The Celator Cover Coin

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1455. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (21.19 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 140. Laureate head right / Italia, holding cornucopia and scepter, seated left on globe, which has stars and the equinoctial cross; ITALIA in exergue. RIC III 747a; Banti 197; BMCRE 1645-6; M.R. Molnar, “Symbolism of the Sphere” in The Celator 12.6 (June 1998), fig. 1 and front cover (this coin). Good VF, brown river patina, a few minor contact marks.