CNG 102, Lot: 977. Estimate $300. Sold for $230. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 29.56 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 156-157. Laureate head right / Securitas seated left on curule chair formed by two crossed cornucopias, holding scepter and resting left elbow on one of the cornucopias. RIC III 967; Banti 475; BMCRE 2016. VF, dark green and brown patina, small area of roughness on Pius’ neck, metal flaw on the reverse after POT XX that has the appearance of an inverted ∆.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Peus 382 (26 April 2005), lot 473 (hammer €200).