386, Lot: 560. Estimate $150. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ As (26.5mm, 11.30 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 140. Laureate head right / Mars right, holding spear and shield, descending through the air toward sleeping Rhea Silvia. RIC III 694a. Good Fine, dark gray-green patina, flan crack.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Cederlind BBS 180 (14 September 2015), lot 4.

In Roman mythology, Mars and Rhea Silvia were the parents of Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome.