107, Lot: 178. Estimate $300. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANONYMOUS. Period of Antoninus Pius. Æ Quadrans (17mm, 4.37 gm). Bust of child Spring right, wearing flower garland and necklace of flowers / S C across field within vine wreath with grape bunches. RIC II pg. 219, 34 (Bacchus); J. Van Heesch, "Une représentation remarquable des quatre saisons sur semisses de l'époque antoninienne," in SPNO I 3b. VF, brown patina.

Mattingly originally assigned this type to the large number of anonymous quadrantes issued in the general period of the late first and early second centuries. He dismissed the assertion of Cohen, however, who assigned this type to Annius Verus, the deceased twin of the emperor Commodus. The presence of several consistent varieties of this type prompted Van Heesch to retain the Antonine attribution, but to assign these coins instead to personifications of the seasons, representations of the abundance present in Rome's "Golden Age."