Banti Plate Coin

CNG 99, Lot: 640. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 26.79 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 151-152. Laureate head right / Annona standing left, holding grain ears and resting hand on modius with grain ears set on prow to right. RIC III 887; Banti 450 (this coin, illustrated). Good VF, dark brown surfaces, some red on obverse, traces of minor roughness, shallow edge nick on reverse.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 265 (5 October 2011), lot 371; Classical Numismatic Group 79 (17 September 2008), lot 1113; Münz Zentrum XXXVIII (16 April 1980), lot 305.