Sale: Nomos 3 & 4, Lot: 187. Estimate CHF400.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 May 2011.  Sold For CHF320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Denarius (Silver, 3.04 g 7), Rome, 159/160. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XXIII Laureate head of Antoninus Pius to right. Rev. FORTVNA COS IIII Fortuna standing right, holding rudder and cornucopiae. BMC 979. Cohen 383. RIC 300a. With a fine portrait of the now very elderly Pius. Extremely fine.

From the East Side collection, Switzerland.