366, Lot: 26. Estimate $500. Sold for $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANCIENT COINS USED IN INDIA & INDIAN IMITATIONS. Antoninus Pius. AD 138-161. AV Aureus (20mm, 6.94 g, 6h). Indian imitation. INIVΩ(retrograde S)NVIΩ CVΩ(retrograde S)PΛVNII, laureate head right / CO S IIII, Pius, wearing toga, standing left, holding globe. Cf. RIC III 226c; cf. Calicó 1521; cf. Turner pl. III 225 (all refs for type); L.A. Adams, “The Indian Imitations of Roman Aurei,” SAN, Vol. XVII, No. 4 (September 1989), Fig. 2 (this coin). Good VF, lightly toned in devices, minor flan waviness.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams.