431, Lot: 417. Estimate $300. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Divus Antoninus Pius. Died AD 161. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 24.02 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, AD 162. Bare head right / Column surmounted by statue of Pius holding eagle and scepter. RIC III 1269 (Aurelius); MIR 18, 46-6/10 (Aurelius); Banti 144. VF, dark brown surfaces with traces of green and red, a few minor pits and smoothing.

Ex Collection of a Director (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 392, 1 March 2017), lot 545.

The reverse depicts the column of the divine Antoninus Pius, the shaft and base of which survive. The latter, now in the Vatican, employs both classical and traditionally plebeian sculptural styles and marks an artistic transition in imperially sponsored monuments.