66, Lot: 208. Estimate $150. Sold for $460. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ROMAN IMPERIAL. Antoninus Pius to Caracalla. Lot of seven Æ Sestertii. Includes the following: ANTONINUS PIUS. 138-161 AD. Struck 140-141 AD. Annona. RIC III 597; Cohen 34. Roughness on obverse // Same. Struck 143-144 AD. Fides. RIC III 716(a); Cohen 426. Some roughness // DIVA FAUSTINA SR., wife of Antoninus Pius. Died 141 AD. Vesta standing left, holding patera over lighted altar, and palladium. RIC III 1126; Cohen 117 // FAUSTINA JR., wife of Marcus Aurelius. Venus. RIC III 1388(c) (Pius); cf. Cohen 268. Flan crack // COMMODUS. 177-192 AD. Struck Spring-December 179 AD. Minerva. RIC III 1607; Cohen 234 // SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS. 193-211 AD. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed? bust right / Africa. RIC IV 668 var. (cuirassed only); Cohen 27 var. (same). Roughness on reverse // CARACALLA. 198-217 AD. Struck 210-213 AD. Securitas. RIC IV 512(d); Cohen 576. Rough, cleaned and smoothed. Average Fine with noted conditions. Seven (7) coins in lot. SOLD AS IS. NO RETURNS.

From the Paul McIlroy Collection.