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REX ARMENIIS DATVS

336, Lot: 273. Estimate $200.
Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 26.47 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 141-143. Laureate head right / REX ARMENIIS DATVS, Antoninus Pius standing left, crowning Sohemo to left; S C in exergue. RIC III 619; Banti 322. VF, dark green and brown patina, roughness.


With Armenia continuing to act as a buffer for Rome from the Parthian empire, the installation of a new client-king was an important event celebrated on the reverse of this type. As it occurred during the third consulship of Antoninus Pius (AD 140-144), the new Armenian king represented here must be Sohemo (first reign, circa AD 140/44-161).