221, Lot: 488. Estimate $100. Sold for $74. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 27.34 g, 11h). Rome mint. Struck AD 159-160. Laureate head right / Pietas standing left, holding globe and child; two children at feet. RIC III 1031. VF, brown surfaces, some roughness.

From the Jörg Müller Collection.

This reverse type, employed in the last year of the emperor’s long and prosperous reign, concentrates attention on the promising youth of the imperial family.