Exceptional Pius Sestertius
CNG 112, Lot: 621. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 28.22 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 144. ANTONINVS AVG PI VSP P TR P COS III, laureate head right / DES IIII, S C in exergue, Salus seated left, feeding out of patera serpent coiled around and rising from altar to left and resting elbow on rudder set on globe. RIC III 751; Banti 140. Brown patina, minor porosity on reverse. EF. Rare in this condition. Wonderful portrait.
From the Matthew Curtis Collection. Ex Künker 257 (10 October 2014), lot 8530 (hammer €6000); G. Hirsch 196 (24 September 1997), lot 744.
