417, Lot: 442. Estimate $100. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous issues. temp. Hadrian–Antoninus Pius, AD 117-161. Æ Quadrans (19mm, 3.88 g, 6h). Rome mint. Draped bust of the personification of Spring right, wearing garland and necklace of flowers / [S • C] within vine wreath with grape bunches. RIC II 35; Van Heesch 3b, pl. XXV, 6. VF, stripped tan surfaces with touches of green and red.

Mattingly originally assigned this type to the large number of anonymous quadrantes issued in the general period of the late first and early second centuries. He dismissed the assertion of Cohen, however, who assigned this type to Annius Verus, the deceased twin of the emperor Commodus. The presence of several consistent varieties of this type prompted Van Heesch to retain the Antonine attribution, but to assign these coins instead to personifications of the seasons, representations of the abundance present in Rome's "Golden Age."