Very Rare AFRICA Sestertius
Ex Niggeler, Banti Plate Coin

CNG 93, Lot: 1171. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 25.14 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 139. Laureate head right / Africa, wearing African elephant skin headdress, standing left, holding diadem of pearls and cornucopia. RIC III 574; Banti 10 (this coin illustrated). Good VF, brown surfaces, some red, minor roughness on obverse. Very rare.

From the Robert O. Ebert Collection. Ex Walter Niggler Collection (Part 3, Leu & Münzen und Medaillen AG, 2 November 1967), lot 1290.