CNG 90, Lot: 1557. Estimate $7500. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.42 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 147. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P, laureate and cuirassed bust right / TR PO T COS IIII, Roma seated left on throne, holding scepter and palladium; round shield to lower right. RIC III 147 (bust type); Calicó 1658 (this coin illustrated). Near EF. Fine style portrait.

Ex Sanpex Collection (Stack’s, 10 January 2011), lot 143; Stack’s (13 January 2004), lot 40; Dr. Giorgio Giorgi Collection (M. Ratto, 26 January 1955), lot 729.