Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1025. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANTONINUS PIUS. 138-161 AD. Æ Sestertius (24.41 gm, 12h). Struck 159 AD. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XXII, laureate head right / TEMPLVM DIV AVG REST, COS IIII in exergue, S C across field, statues of Divus Augustus and Diva Julia Augusta (Livia) seated facing on bases, each holding long sceptre; all within octastyle temple set on three-tiered base with statues standing facing on bases on either end before columns, holding long sceptres; pediment decorated with statues; quadriga and Victories as acroteria. RIC III 1004; Strack 1167d; Banti 406; BMCRE 2063; Cohen 805. EF, flat green patina with traces of brick-red, light smoothing in fields. ($2000)

From the Michael Weller Collection.