434, Lot: 347. Estimate $200. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 30.46 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 144. Laureate bust right, slight drapery / Salus standing facing, head left, feeding serpent entwined around altar from patera and holding rudder set on globe. RIC III 749 var. (without slight drapery); Banti 138 var. (same). VF, brown surfaces, light roughness. Good portrait.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 266 (19 October 2011), lot 385.