342, Lot: 568. Estimate $500. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 29.94 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 139. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P, laureate head right / TR POT COS II around, S C across field, Fides, draped, standing right, holding two grain ears downwards in right hand and plate of fruit on raised left hand. RIC III 546; Strack 804; Banti 423; BMCRE 1145. VF, attractive gray and dark green patina, a few areas of minor roughness on obverse.

From the RAM Collection, purchased from Pegasi, August 1987.