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54, Lot: 144. Estimate $300.
Sold for $185. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANTONINUS PIUS. 138-161 AD. Æ As (10.13 gm). 148-149 AD. ANTONINVS AVG PI VS PP TR P XII, laureate head right / MVNIFICENTIA AVG, COS IIII / S C in exergue, elephant parading right. RIC III 862a; BMCRE 1840; Cohen 565. VF, dark green patina, fields lightly smoothed. ($300)

The reference of the reverse is to the staging of wild beast shows in the arena of the Amphitheatrum Flavium, better known today as the Colosseum, on the occasion of the celebration of Rome's 900th anniversary in 147-148 AD.