From the Biaggi & Mazzini Collections

CNG 85, Lot: 915. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.20 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 158-159. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XXII, laureate head right / VOTA SVSCE PTA DEC III, Pius standing left, sacrificing over lighted altar to left; COS IIII in exergue. RIC III 294d; Calicó 1714; Mazzini 11119 = Biaggi 782 (this coin). Near EF, lightly toned.

Ex B. d. B. Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 49, 21 October 2008), lot 254; Biaggi Collection; Mazzini Collection.