CNG 109, Lot: 665. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 23.46 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 141-143. Laureate head right / Tiber reclining left on overturned urn from which water flows, hand resting on boat, holding reed. RIC III 642a; Banti 414. VF, brown patina, hairline flan crack, slight roughness. Attractive portrait.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group 87 (18 May 2011), lot 1007; Tony Hardy Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 69, 8 June 2005), lot 1616.