Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1023. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANTONINUS PIUS. 138-161 AD. Æ Sestertius (20.14 gm, 12h). Struck 143-144 AD. ANTONINVS AVG PI-VS P P TR P COS III, laureate head right / BRITA-N-NIA, S C in exergue, Britannia seated left on heap of rocks, holding military standard in right hand and cradling spear in left arm leaning on round shield set on rock. RIC III 742; Strack 825d; Banti 44; BMCRE 1637 var. (no spear); Cohen 116; Mazzini 116 (this coin). Near EF, beautiful green patina with traces of yellow-brown. ($7500)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Dr. Meyer-Coloniensis III (Münz Zentrum 64, 15 April 1988), lot 263.