Triton XVII, Lot: 698. Estimate $500. Sold for $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 30.15 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 138. IMP CAES AELIVS ANTO[NIN]VS AVG, laureate head right / TRIB POT COS [DE]S II, PIETAS/S C across field, Pietas standing left, holding extending right hand over lighted altar, acerrum in left. RIC III 523c; Strack 741; Banti –; BMCRE 1109† var. (Pietas standing right). Good VF, natural green patina with earthen encrustation, light smoothing on obverse.