Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1021. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANTONINUS PIUS. 138-161 AD. Æ Sestertius (26.61 gm, 6h). Struck 140-144 AD. ANTONINVS AVG PI-VS P P TR P COS III, laureate head right / ROMVLO AVGVSTO, S C across field, Romulus, in military outfit, advancing right, holding spear in right hand and trophy over left shoulder. RIC III 624; Strack 850d; Banti 337 (this coin); BMCRE 1286; Cohen 704. Good VF, mottled dark olive and black-green patina with traces of yellow-brown, light smoothing in fields. ($2000)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Leo Benz Collection (Lanz 94, 122 November 1999), lot 549; Monetarium List 40 (Fall 1983), lot 125; Numismatic Fine Arts XII (23-24 March 1983), lot 273; M. L. Collection (J. Vinchon, 23-24 April 1976), lot 81.