Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1615. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANTONINUS PIUS. 138-161 AD. Æ Sestertius (24.38 gm, 5h). Struck circa 141-143 AD. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / Salus standing left holding sceptre and feeding from patera serpent coiled around altar. RIC III 635; BMCRE 1307 var. (bust type); Cohen 711 var. Good VF, brown patina, slight roughness, flan crack. Struck on a broad flan with an attractive portrait. ($500)

Ex Marian A Sinton Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 53, 15 March 2000), lot 1574.