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Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 1541. Estimate $1000. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004. 
Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANTONINUS PIUS. 138-161 AD. Æ Sestertius (25.59 gm). Struck 153-154 AD. Laureate head left / INDVLGENTI-A AVG, Indulgentia seated left on throne, feet on footstool, extending hand and holding sceptre. RIC III 914 note (this coin); Banti 187 (this coin); BMCRE 1941 note (this coin); Cohen -. VF, dark-green patina, light smoothing in fields. The only known example of this variety with the laureate head left. ($1000)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Frank Sternberg XXVII (7-8 November 1994), lot 449; Schweizericher Bankverein 6 (19 April 1980), lot 118; Cantoni Collection (P&P Santamaria 5, 29 November 1920), lot 714.