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337, Lot: 422. Estimate $100.
Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (25mm, 11.55 g, 1h). Rome mint. Struck AD 149. Radiate head right / Crossed cornucopias from which grape bunches flanked by grain ears hang, each surmounted by bust of a boy. RIC III 859. Near VF, brown patina, some porosity. Scarce.


The infants are thought to be T. Aelius Antoninus and T. Aurelius Antoninus, the twin sons of Marcus Aurelius and Faustina Junior born in AD 149. These were the first male offspring of the couple, offering hope for the establishment of the new dynasty, but both died in infancy.