Calicó Plate Coin

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 635. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (7.31 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 152. IMP CAES T AEL HADR ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P, bare head left / TR POT XV COS IIII, Pius standing facing, head left, holding globe in extended right hand, roll in left. RIC III 213 var. (bust type); Strack 235 and pl. iii (same obv. die); Calicó 1664 (this coin illustrated); BMCRE 743A (same obv. die); Cohen 964 var. (bust type). Superb EF. Rare left facing portrait, of fine style.

Ex Gemini I (11 January 2005), lot 364; Biaggi Collection, 746.